ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PLUS - Your Poker … POKER MAGAZINE TM ... the event catapulted Still to the top spot ... folds and bluffs. I think that you kind of need to have all those

YOUR POKER MAGAZINE TM

DAVID BURNS OF WISCONSIN WINS OUR MOST POPULAR DEALER CONTEST • PG 46

DALTON STILL

NORTHEASTTrump Taj Mahal closing for good

SOUTHIsle’s Florida State Poker Championships

MIDWESTCanterbury Park Fall Classic preview

SOUTHWESTMackay wins WPT at Choctaw in Oklahoma

WESTVenetian’s DeepStack continues to sparkle

STRATEGYLearn to review your play at the table

Right out of the gate, he wins Event 1 and rides that to

Player of the Series.

ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPTHUNDER VALLEY CASINO RESORT LINCOLN, CALIF. • JULY 21-AUG. 7

PLUS

anteupmagazine.com | @anteupmagazine | facebook.com/anteupmagazine | SEPTEMBER 2016

The buzz around Ante Up Headquarters always picks up in September because it’s when we celebrate our magazine’s anniversary.

Eight years ago this month, we launched Ante Up, Florida’s Poker Magazine, giving our state’s everyday poker players a ve-hicle for celebrating their accomplishments while providing a platform for our terrific poker rooms to showcase their fine es-tablishments and staffs.

Since then, we have seen quite a lot in poker and, of course, done quite a lot, including growing from coast to coast as the leading poker news publication. We love touting your poker successes and highlighting the finest poker rooms in North America.

So, in that same vein and to celebrate eight years, this month we’d like to share a story we hope might help grow our favorite pastime.

In 2005, while brainstorming a name for our pokercast, we realized most of the disciplines we called in our home game were non-flop games.

We played stud, stud/8 and razz with antes, so that’s how we settled on “Ante Up” for the name of our show and ensu-ing magazine. We still get together with our friends just about every month and play every mixed game you could ever find in a World Series.

While we always will be grateful to no-limit hold’em and the poker boom, we think mixed games are the most fun and easily the best way to flex and train your poker brain. A handful of years ago, plenty of big-name pros predicted pot-limit Omaha would be the next big thing. And while that game has grown in popularity, it never came close to matching NHLE.

We’d like everyone who focuses solely on NLHE, or even PLO, to give mixed games a try this month. See if it’s spread in your local room and sit down for a session. If it’s not offered, ask the brush to put it on the board and talk it up. Once you get a taste for mixed games, you’ll be surprised at just how much they’ll help improve your NLHE and PLO chops.

We’ll see you at the mixed-games tables.— Christopher Cosenza and Scott Long

POKER MEDIA LLC2519 McMullen-Booth Road • Suite 510-300

Clearwater, FL 33761727-331-4335 • [email protected]

OUR MISSIONAnte Up, YOUR Poker Magazine, is dedicated to everyday poker players and their poker rooms.

PUBLISHERSChristopher Cosenza • [email protected]

Scott Long • [email protected]

ADVERTISINGChristopher Cronin, Director of Sales • (Western Casinos, 480-217-2589)

Debbie Burkhead • (Eastern Casinos, 702-269-1733)David Lukow • (Canadian Casinos, 716-587-2878) Scott Long • (Partnerships, AUPT, 727-331-4335)

anteupmagazine.com/advertise • [email protected]

POKER CRUISES Jeanne Cosenza • [email protected] (727-742-3843)

AMBASSADORSChris Cronin • Arizona • [email protected]

Jo Kim • Atlantic City/Philadelphia/Northeast • [email protected]

Garrett Roth • Northern California • [email protected]

Kittie Aleman • Southern California • [email protected]

“Chicago” Joe Giertuga • Chicagoland/Indiana • [email protected]

Dick Stein • Colorado • [email protected]

Charles Allison • North Florida • [email protected]

Sara Malowitz • Central Florida • [email protected]

“Big” Dave Lemmon • South Florida • [email protected]

Ken Warren • Iowa • [email protected]

Rob Solomon • Las Vegas • [email protected]

Danny Wade • Louisiana • [email protected]

Scott “Caveman” Miller • Michigan • [email protected]

Michael Young • Mid-Atlantic • [email protected]

John Somsky • Minnesota • [email protected]

Jennifer Gay • Mississippi • [email protected]

Todd Lamansky • Missouri • [email protected]

Mary Bradley • New Mexico • [email protected]

David Lukow • Northeast • [email protected]

Brian Bly • Ohio/W. Va./W. Pa. • [email protected]

Robert Kelly • Oklahoma-Kansas • [email protected]

“Jammin’ “ Jay Zeman • Pacific Northwest • [email protected]

Chad Holloway • Wisconsin • [email protected]

CONTRIBUTORSStephen Bloomfield, Al Spath, Brent Philbin and Mark Brement

DISTRIBUTION • SUBSCRIPTIONSAnte Up is free for poker rooms. Call (727) 331-4335 • Individual subscriptions

are $30 per 12 issues or $5 per copy • anteupmagazine.com/magazine

POLICIESAll material in Ante Up is copyrighted and all rights are reserved. Reproduction of material without Ante Up’s consent is forbidden. We do not endorse services or

products advertised, nor are we responsible for ad copy.

4 | SEPTEMBER 2016 | anteupmagazine.com | @anteupmagazine

A mixed reviewChristopher Cosenza

Scott Long

FOLLOW USfacebook.com/anteupmagazine

Twitter: @anteupmagazine

32 | OCTOBER 2014 | anteupmagazine.com | @anteupmagazine

Cash games • Tournaments Classes • Professional dealers

Tampa to Mexico Tampa to Spain

Port Canaveral to Bahamas

AnteUpCruises.ComJeanne Cosenza • 727-742-3843

Relax ...Play Poker ...Repeat.

MPDCONTEST

StrategySometimes poker success is all about self-reflection. Our writ-ers suggest reviewing hands, avoiding traps and recognizing confirmation bias. 48-54

Ante Up Poker Tour

Sam Panzica captures the Florida State Poker Championship. Plus, the AUPT returns to Pearl River in Miss. in October. 24-32

CONTENTS

On The Button

SouthwestEvents are heating up in the last days of summer, includ-ing tourneys in Arizona and New Mexico. 18-23

South

Northeast

Midwest

After reopening a few months ago, the iconic poker room at Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City will close on Sept. 5 as the casino shuts down operations. Also, Fox-woods in Connecticut hosts the WPF on Oct. 1-17. 34-40

Winners are everywhere across the Midwest, including, from left, Jereme Lindorff, John Sun, Mark Kroon, Michael Hanson and Vihn Tran. Plus, we preview Minnesota’s Fall Classic. 40-42

The Ante Up World Championship at Thunder Valley Casino Resort easily surpassed the $500K guarantee. 8-11

The Venetian’s DeepStack Ex-travaganza series continues to draw tons of players to the Las Vegas room. 14-17

West

We have a winner in our Most Popular Dealer contest and it’s David Burns of Wisconsin. 46

MPD Contest

How many hot dogs do you think you can eat in 10 minutes? Ante Up’s Scott Long gave it a go for charity. 66

8

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

By Scott Long

This year’s Ante Up World Cham-pionship was Dalton Still’s from the

start. Literally.The series, which boasted $1 million

in guarantees, kicked off with a new event called the Catapult, a five-flight $155 buy-in event that drew a staggering 1,595 players to Thunder Valley Casino Resort near Sacramento, Calif., Winning the event catapulted Still to the top spot in the first Ante Up World Champion-ship Player of the Series and on the cov-er of Ante Up.

“I feel privileged to be chosen for such an honor,” said Still, a Rocklin, Calif., player who started playing poker in 2002 and plays mostly online, though he has started making a name for himself on the Northern California tournament cir-cuit. “I think we all play tournaments to go on big runs and it’s nice to have mine be recognized. Hopefully, I will have a World Series of Poker ring and bracelet to put next to it someday.”

Still’s remarkable run started with ral-lying from just 5,000 chips in the Cata-pult at the 400-800 level.

“I somehow found a few doubles to get to over average,” he said. “After that, I built up my stack all day with good calls, folds and bluffs. I think that you kind of need to have all those things go right to get through a 1,600-player field. On Day 2, we were about 36-handed when I went from like 700K to 1.8 million in a single dealer rotation, when the average was around 500K. This gave me a lot of chips to put pressure on everyone toward the end.”

Still earned $20K for winning that event, but he wasn’t done. Thirteen events later, he found himself at the final table of the $340 buy-in six-max event. He went on a rush, but then his pocket 10s ran into the pocket aces of friend

Matt Boddorf of Lincoln, Calif., which evened out the stacks.

“We ended up chopping heads-up because it was 3 a.m. and neither of us wanted to play two more hours consid-ering we had the heads-up tourney the next morning,” Still said.

And the $400 buy-in Head to Head Championship proved to be a major

sweat for Still. Boddorf, who had cashed in Events 1 and 10, was the only player stand-ing between Still and the Player of the Series title, which awarded the winner a seat in the

$1,650 main event. To unseat Still, Bod-dorf would need to win the event and have Still not cash. Still was eliminated and Boddorf kept picking off opponents until he was forced to make the difficult decision to chop four-handed, handing the title to Still.

“I thought I was still a huge favorite to win, considering he had to get first place

to overtake the lead,” Still said. “After he won the first couple rounds, I was re-freshing my phone every 10 minutes for updates. It was a good race and we had a lot of fun. Congrats to Matt on his suc-cess this series.”

Ben Erwin, director of poker operations for Thunder Valley, was aggressive in de-signing this year’s Ante Up World Cham-pionship, emboldened by the staggering growth the resort has seen in poker since hosting its first major tournament series, the Ante Up NorCal Classic, in 2012. And nowhere was he more aggressive than putting a $500K guarantee on the main event, which easily surpassed that with 414 entries and was won by a player who survived heads-up by hitting a two-outer to collect $124,940. He declined to be identified or photographed for this article.

“The series was truly a success for the region,” Erwin said. “This series was very aggressive, offering four $100K-plus guaranteed events, with a weekday $100K guarantee that has never been

STILL THE BESTANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

WE

ST

Dalton Still of Rocklin, Calif., wins Player of the Series at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, Calif.

C: 19 M: 100Y: 100K: 10

C: 25 M: 44Y: 84K: 4

C: 42 M: 84Y: 74K: 64

C: 0 M: 0Y: 0K: 100

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

Continued on Page 10 Dan R

oss o

f Hold

’em R

adio

Dalton Still won the opening event for $20K

and had a fine series.

9

@anteupm

agazine | anteupmagazine.com

| SEPTEMBER 2016 |

ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPW

ES

T

Photos courtesy of Dan Ross of Hold’em Radio, Garrett Roth and JoyeRie Photo

Amir Lehavot

J.C. Tran

Steve Gee

Lon McEachern

Gordon Vayo

What a reception!

Sean McCormack

Ben Erwin

Matt Savage

Main-event final table

10

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP

attempted in our market. The amount of people that traveled in and regional players that took time off to participate was remarkable.”

The 20-event series attracted a who’s who of players in the region and beyond, including November Niners J.C. Tran, Amir Lehavot, Steve Gee and Gordon Vayo, World Series of Poker commentator Lon McEachern and tour-ing pros Tyler Patterson, Kevin O’Donnell, Allen Kessler and Kathy Liebert.

With affordable buy-ins for many events, several multiday events and a variety of games, including HORSE, Omaha/8, pot-limit Omaha/8, seniors and Open Face Chinese Pineapple, the series was more accessible to more players than ever before in its three years. It also featured a Wel-come Reception the night before the main event for all players who regis-tered early to enjoy complimentary drinks and appetizers at High Steaks Steakhouse, while chatting with Erwin, Ante Up publisher Scott Long and World Poker Tour Executive Tour Director Matt Savage, who oversaw the heads-up championship and the main event. Dan Ross of Hold’em Radio

provided updates throughout the event on Twitter and Thunder Valley’s blog.

And it all played out at the luxurious AAA Four Diamond Thunder Valley Resort, which features a Las Vegas-style casino, well-ap-pointed guest rooms, a spa, and plenty of restaurants, bars and entertainment ven-

ues to keep players entertained when away from the poker table.While November’s Ante Up NorCal Classic is the next AUPT event

scheduled at Thunder Valley, with the winner of the main event appear-ing on the cover of Ante Up, Erwin already has turned his attention to next year’s Ante Up World Championship.

“Next year, the tradition will continue! The $1M in guaranteed prize money will be back. We are always looking to add events and improve, and 2017 will be no exception,” Erwin said. “This series was really a celebration of what poker was become here in the Sacramento. It’s a privilege to host this series. The fact that players are now marking their calendars and planning to travel for the Ante Up World Championship at Thunder Valley is remarkable and proves that our game is alive and well in Northern California.” S

WE

ST

Continued from Page 8

Photo

s cou

rtesy

of H

old’em

Rad

io an

d Gar

rett R

oth

The fields were large during the AUPT series.

AUPT Player of the Year Race1. Dalton Still, Rockin, CA, 1,512.092. Matthew Boddorf, Lincoln, CA, 1,125.933. John Mercer, Indian Wells, CA, 1,107.954. Joe Christman, Pacifica, CA, 1,004.945. Bill Watchman, Sparks, NV, 887.66. George Cabrey, Elk Grove, CA, 829.117. Todd Graham, Chico, CA, 786.78. Clive Berkman, Irvine, CA, 761.999. Marty Gorenc, Reno, 750.0810. Rafael Gonzalez, Los Angeles, 710.611. Phil Phongsaiphonh, Roseville, CA, 668.9212. Dawn Wilensky, 660.5713. Jae Pak, El Dorado Hils, CA, 640.1714. Kachittavong, Soukha, R.I., 611.2615. Juan Ramirez, Redding, CA, 610.1816. Jaime Haletky, Walnut Creek, CA, 606.817. Matt Kramer, Rancho Cordova, CA, 588.3718. Vikram Bhatia, Sunnyvale, CA, 580.8719. Amber Chatwin, Kelseyville, CA, 580.220. Tommy Vann, 535.1821. Darrell Cain, Fair Oaks, CA, 509.6922. Craig Gold, Belmont, CA, 508.2223. Daniel Evans, Chico, CA, 507.2824. Masoud Shojei, El Dorado Hills, CA, 505.8625. Walter Robertson, San Jose, CA, 502.4726. Henry Acain, Stockton, CA, 497.5426. Jonny Gomez, Reno, 497.5426. Jill Haddox, Sacramento, 497.5426. Zak Pirddy, Yuba City, CA, 497.5426. Gary Pisarek, Auburn, CA, 497.5426. Kathy Stahl, Manteca, CA, 497.5426. Michael Sweeney, Tracy, CA, 497.5426. Alan Snow, Lynnwood, WA, 495.4526. James Hammer, 491.9835. Kenneth Fitzgerald, Roseville, CA, 478.0336. Ravinder Sharma, Yuba City, CA, 475.937. Cheng Xiong, Sacramento, 472.1338. Brian Altman, Boston, 471.3139. Robert Kalinowski, 467.0940. Nicolas Aguilera, New York, 458.8841. Richard Rossi, Connecticut, 458.6442. Michael Tomic, 448.4743. Vincent Chung, Turlock, CA, 446.7844. Kao Saevang, Sacramento, 442.2145. Tyler Patterson, Scottsdale, AZ, 436.9746. Bojana Weimer, Modesto, CA, 433.8247. Akash Mazumdar, 433.3148. Phil Rhodes, Cottonwood, CA, 429.0749. Jovy Ounthongdy, 423.0750. Brent Philbin, Hallandale Beach, FL, 422.02

Ante Up’s Scott Long, center, with past champs Justos Avalos, left,

and Cy Williams.

11

@anteupm


| SEPTEMBER 2016 |

Ev. 1 • $155 NLHEEntries: 1,595 • Pool: $204K1. Dalton Still, $20K2. John Mercer, $10K3. Todd Graham, $8,9564. Kathy Stahl, $8,9565. Michael Sweeney, $8,9566. Henrieto Acain, $8,9567. Jill Haddox, $8,9568. Gary Pisarek, $8,9569. Juan Ramirez-Parodi10. Zak Pirddy, $8,956

Ev. 2 • $150 bountyEntries: 171 • Pool: $13,6801. David Forsberg, $1,8152. Mohammad Dirsiye, $1,8153. Joseph Bayless, $1,8154. Walter Bayless, $1,8155. Clive Berkman, $1,8156. Todd Duda, $1,8157. Leland Wulff, $5068. Kim Hyunhye, $3769. Gregory Bixler, $26710. Siavash Bahri, $212

Ev. 3 • $125 NLHEEntries: 155 • Pool: $15,4991. Christina Ouyang-Hang, $2,6512. Tommy Carpenter, $1,8333. Peter Tran, $1,8144. Phillip Phongsaiphonh, $1,7955. Justin Williams, $1,5666. Calixto Magaoay, $1,4487. Jack Surwald, $1,2668. Fariborz Davrapanah, $5329. David Lloyd, $39810. John Hadley, $290

Ev. 4 • $125 NLHEEntries: 136 • Pool: $13,6001. Kyle Welter, $3,6432. Robert Sudbury, $2,5533. Rudy Sisson, $1,6424. Jae Pak, $1,2165. Eric Danson, $9116. Lance Richardson, $7297. Darron Kendall, $6078. Albert Sanchez, $4689. Shane Feusier, $36410. Evelyn Iraheta, $265

Ev. 5 • $155 NLHEEntries: 86 • Pool: $11K1. Kevin O’Donnell, $2,0002. Ryan Carlson, $1,5893. Walter Stewart, $1,5884. Outtama Keovangsa, $1,5885. Eric Danson, $1,5886. Howard Tam, $6607. Bill Walker, $5238. Scott Long, $4139. Tommy Carpenter, $33010. Ed Miller, $330

Ev. 6 • $155 6-maxEntries: 126 • Pool: $16,1281. James Hammer, $2,9072. Masoud Shojaei, $2,9073. John Mercer, $2,9074. Monte Gilley, $1,4555. Antonio Baracco, $1,0926. Jae Pak, $8407. Josh Pedretti, $6318. Richard Elson, $6319. Exequiel Fernando, $63110. Sharon Sanchez, $419

Ev. 7 • $140 NLHEEntries: 102 • Pool: $12,2401. Walter Stewart, $1,0001. George Cabrey, $1,0001. Edward Stafsholt, $1,0001. Evelyn Iraheta, $1,000

1. Carolyn Bermudez, $1,0001. Robert Luebkeman, $1,0001. Wayne Burton, $1,0001. Clive Berkman, $1,0001. Ted Clark, $1,0001. Jeff Sardella, $1,000

Ev. 8 • $155 O/8Entries: 121 • Pool: $15,4881. Danny Smith, $4,1502. Benjamin Skinner, $2,9073. William Husa, $1,8694. Richard Peterson, $1,3855. Yang Shifley, $1,0386. Eddy Vataru, $8307. Ronald Spence, $6918. Jeffrey Hart, $5539. Brian Waller, $41510. Una Seo, $302

Ev. 9 • $425 NLHEEntries: 767 • Pool: $284K1. Joe Christman, $42,2002. Rafael Gonzalez, $45,0003. Amber Chatwin, $22,6004. Walter Robertson, $16,8605. Vikram Bhatia, $12,9476. Chuck Davy, $10,4407. Anne Jones, $8,5008. N/A, $6,700 9. Donald Deeds, $5,00010. Danna Deatherage, $3,670

Ev. 10 • $150 bountyEntries: 178 • Pool: $14,3411. John Bufka, $1,0252. Joshua Emery, $1,0253. Ken Fitzgerald, $1,0254. Bienvenida Rosal, $1,0255. Ian Elieff, $1,0256. Mariedward Sese, $1,0257. Emmanuel Okoye, $1,0258. Ronald Christian, $1,0259. Michael Durzan, $1,02510. Nader Haddad, $1,025

Ev. 11 • $155 HORSEEntries: 68 • Pool: $8,7041. John Goyette, $2,220 1. Brendon Thomson, $2,220 3. Suzanne Giannetti, $1,175 4. Kyle Grewing, $870 5. Anthony Summers, $653 6. Kulwant Singh, $522 7. Ronald Spence, $435 8. Michael Arents, $348 9. Jason Moe, $261

Ev. 12 • $250 NLHEEntries: 496 • Pool: $105K1. Bill Watchman, $19,5002. Tom Vann, $14,1953. Tyler Patterson, $9,8504. Peter Xiong, $7,2005. Daniel Evans, $5,6006. Lon McEachern, $4,4707. Donald Landwirth, $3,4508. Vincent Fagalde, $2,5509. Mark Beaman, $1,80010. George Cabrey, $1,800

Ev. 13 • $155 PLO/8Entries: 54 • Pool: $6,9121. Vic Campana, $1,9702. Una Seo, $1,9703. Thomas McGurk, $1,0374. James Maxwell, $8295. John Fraivillig, $6226. Michael Kelly, $484

Ev. 14 • $340 6-maxEntries: 62 • Pool: $20K1. Matt Boddorf, $4,5051. Dalton Still, $4,5053. Hoang Nguyen, $2,6004. Said Rahmani, $2,0805. Robert Lew, $1,5606. Arsalan Kashan, $1,2007. Joseph Arent, $9008. Michael Zakin, $9009. Marty Gorenc, $90010. Jae Pak, $850

Ev. 15 • $400 HUEntries: 63 • Pool: $21,4201. Eric Werner, $4,0161. Matt Boddorf, $4,0161. Matthew Kramer, $4,0161. Chris Penfield, $4,0165. Mike Postle, $1,3395. Sean Drake, $1,3395. Brian Giles, $1,3395. James Arrasmith, $1,339

$1,650 Main EventEntries: 414 • Pool: $608K1. N/A, $124,940 2. Jaime Haletky, $87,6363. Alan Snow, $56,3554. Phil Rhodes, $37,4895. Cherie Wallace, $28,8476. Duy Ho, $23,9177. Kyle Kitagawa, $20,0838. Michael Pearson, $16,3109. Ken Fitzgerald, $12,53710. Adam Duong, $10,528

Ev. 17 • $155 NLHEEntries: 110 • Pool: $14K1. Roy Mode, $3,3692. Travis Fujisaka, $3,3693. John Rogers, $1,7844. Fernando Mora, $1,3225. Scott Lacy, $9916. Gina Stagnitto, $7937. Michelle Murillo, $6608. Kam Tam, $5289. Thai Nguyen, $39710. Francisco Garcia, $289

Ev. 18 • $125 Srs.Entries: 84 • Pool: $8,4001. Ravinder Sharma, $2,011 2. Gaudencio Lucca, $2,010 3. Bruce Williams, $1,064 4. George Cabrey, $789 5. Darrell Colley, $591 6. Jeffrey Trettenero, $473 7. Vic Campana, $394 8. James Prager, $315 9. Arnie Adicoff, $237 10. Arthur Hill, $172

Ev. 19 • $235 OFCEntries: 33 • Pool: $4,4001. Azaan Nagra, $1,7602. Chris Penfield, $1,2323. Patrick Laffey, $7924. John English, $616

Ev. 20 • $100 bountyEntries: 104 • Pool: $6,0321. Marty Gorenc, $1,6002. Trevor Schlatzlein, $1,4353. Michael Danilov, $7544. Joseph Walker, $5135. Sharon Sanchez, $4076. Kenneth Krause, $3177. Schuyler Thornton, $2568. Manuel Romero, $1969. Fernando Mora, $13610. Richard Peloquin, $106

ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPW

ES

T

Thunder Valley’s Ben Erwin and WPT’s Matt Savage

David Forsberg

Christina Ouyang-Hang

Kyle Welter

Kevin O’Donnell

Joe Christman

John Bufka

Matt Boddorf

Marty Gorenc

Azaan Nagra

Ravinder Sharma

Roy Mode

Vic Campana

Bill Watchman

14

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

WE

ST

Josh Weiss of La Jolla came in 10th place at the World Series of Poker Main Event, making him the bubble for the No-

vember Nine and earning $650K. Weiss went into the final 10 as the smallest stack at 3.7M chips. He pushed all-in when he was down to 850K in early position with A-8 but lost to Michael Ruane’s J-5, which made two pair. Weiss had two earlier cashes to bring WSOP winnings to $768,397 this summer.

Garrett Greer of Newport Beach took second in the $1,500 Millionaire Maker, which earned him $1M. This gave him seven WSOP cashes and nearly $1.3M in earnings.

Davis Aalvik of Long Beach earned $270,842 for second in Event 6 ($1,500 NLHE). He also cashed in the main event (863rd, $16K) and the Colossus (513th, $3,256). His combined winnings for 12 cashes between the WSOP and WSOP Circuit are $450K-plus.

John Smith of from La Habra Heights took second in Event 9 ($10K heads-up). The military veteran has been playing poker for 50 years and collected $198K. Before this impressive show-ing, Smith had cashed in only one event, the same tourney in 2014, when he made it to 11th place.

Erik Silberman, a high school biology teacher from Rancho Santa Margarita, took second in Event 17 ($1K NLHE). He banked $195,738 in prize money for his first WSOP cash and final table.

Wenlong Jin, originally from Shanghai but living in Arcadia, finished second in Event 44 ($1K NLHE). This was Jin’s 13th career cash at the series and second time he made a final table. His payout, $184,631, was the largest of his career.

Daniel Strelitz, a pro from Torrance, made a noble effort to win the bracelet but came up just short in Event 48 ($5K tur-bo). His fourth final table paid $338,774 for second, his biggest yet. With six cashes this series, it brings his total at the WSOP to 19.

Tommy Le of Tustin had three final-table appearances this series. He took second in Event 62 ($25K pot-limit Omaha high roller) for $696,558, third in Event 51 ($10K eight-hand-ed PLO) for $376,667 and fifth in Event 37 ($1,500 PLO) for $46,452.

John Monnette of Palmdale cashed in nine events, including second in Event 7 ($1,500 deuce-to-seven) for $57,061. He also had two thirds (Event 11, $10K dealer’s choice, $135K and Event 60, $1,500 stud/8, $66,601). His overall winnings this summer came to $325K-plus, bringing his lifetime WSOP earnings to $1,850,571.

SOCAL STARS AT WORLD SERIES

GARRETT ROTH NORCAL

[email protected]

KITTIE ALEMAN SOCAL

[email protected]

ROB SOLOMON LAS VEGAS

[email protected]

JAY ZEMAN PACIFIC NW

[email protected]

West Ambassadors

Meet Alex MasekAlex Masek is a tournament circuit

grinder who started playing in 2003. Originally from St. Louis, Masek

moved to San Diego in 2008 for law school. After graduation, he moved to

Los Angeles to pursue playing profession-ally. He has more than 120 cashes, $1.3M-plus in tourna-ment earnings and a record nine WSOPC rings.

What is your greatest accomplishment as a player and why? Winning nine WSOP circuit rings. I first started playing the WSOPC because it was the only tournament series that came through San Diego while I was in school there. I won three rings by the time I graduated in 2011. At the time, Mark “Pegasus” Smith had the most rings with five, so after graduating I started to travel to several circuit stops each year to try to get the record.

Have you ever regretted your decision to pursue poker full time instead of going into law? Never. I think being able to set my own schedule, work for myself and travel to play tourna-ments really suits my personality. I’m highly motivated to succeed in poker and there’s still a lot of things that I want to accomplish within the game.

What are your goals now? My main goal is to win a WSOP bracelet or a WPT title. I’ve come close a couple of times, which has made me really appreciate how hard it is to win a prestigious major tourney. Outside of poker, I’m just looking forward to getting married to my fiancée Hannah in April 2017, as well as focusing on staying healthy, exercis-ing and eating well now that I’m in my 30s. — Chris Cronin

RenoPEPPERMILL RESORT SPA CASINO: The Heartland Poker Tour re-

turns Sept. 29-Oct. 10. The highlight of the series is the nation-ally televised $1,100 main event with its final table filmed and live-streamed Oct. 9. There are numerous $65 and $85 satel-lites, plus special tournaments such as Omaha/8 and HORSE are on the schedule. Players can get 20 percent off of room rates by calling 866-821-9996 and mentioning code HPT.

GRAND SIERRA RESORT: There’s a free buffet for players daily at 2 p.m. and 10 p.m. Other promotions include $500 drawings every Monday at 4 p.m. and $2-per-hour comps for live play.

Want to write?If you would like to sign up to be an Ambassador, go to anteupmagazine.com/ambassadors

16

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

WE

ST

The main event at Venetian’s DeepStack Extravaganza III went to Jonathan Turner of Myrtle Beach, S.C., earning him

$536K. Ukraine’s Artem Metalidi took home $330K for second and Dan Heimiller of Las Vegas received $238K for third. The $5K buy-in drew 537 players, creating a $2.4M prize pool, eas-ily surpassing the $2M guarantee.

Next up at the Venetian is DeepStack Extravaganza 3.5, running Sept. 1-25. The biggest tourney is the $3,500 main event with a $1M guarantee. It has three starting flights start-ing Sept. 9. The tournament finishes on Day 3 (Sept. 13).

A $600 event with two starting flights be-gins Sept. 16. It has a $125K guarantee. Price-conscious players will appreciate the $250 event that has five flights starting on Sept. 20. It finishes with Day 2 on Sept. 25 and has a $250K guarantee, which is attrac-tive for the buy-in.

A $250 PLO-PLO/8 tournament plays Sept. 16 ($7K guarantee) and $250 Oma-ha/8 events are scheduled for Sept. 2 and Sept. 21 ($10K guarantee). The evening tournaments are $200 or $300, a mix of tur-bos, bounties and rebuys.

All the events have guarantees, totaling more than $2.2M.

The Venetian has revised its regular dai-ly schedule. The highlight is the new noon Saturday tournament. It’s called the Dou-blestack. Players start with 24K chips for $340. The levels are 40 minutes and there is a 45-minute dinner break after nine levels. The prize pool guarantee is $25K.

There also are two daily tournaments (noon and 7 p.m.). All of the games are NLHE and have guarantees. Except for that new Saturday tournament, all of the buy-ins are between $125 and $200.

PLANET HOLLYWOOD: The main event of Goliath completed on July 10 and saw Jan Eric Schwippert of Germany take first place for $300K.

Another German, Christian Nilles earned $240K for second, while Joseph Johanssy from Vernon, Conn., pulled down $239K for third. There were 2,300-plus entrants for the $1,625 event, creating a $3.5M prize pool, far exceeding the $2M guarantee.

Planet Hollywood is hosting the WSOPC until Sept. 4. The $1,675 main event has two starting flights beginning Sept. 2 and offers a $750K guarantee. A $5,300 high roller runs Sept. 4.

The room just revised its tournament schedule. All tourna-ments are $80 with 12K stacks and 20-minute levels. They run at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m., and 9 p.m. They all have $1,500 guarantees with $850 guaranteed for first, $450 for second and $200 for third.

Current promos include high hands: $50 for quads, $100 for straight flushes and $250 for all royals except hearts. Heart

royals have a progressive jackpot, which starts at $400 and pro-gresses by $200 a day until hit. There is no cap on the progres-sive.

WYNN: Joseph Cappello of New Rochelle, N.Y., won the $1,600 main event of the Wynn Classic on July 19. He outlasted 1,030 entrants and earned $281K for his victory. Barry Hutter of Bra-denton, Fla., took second for $178K and Mitchell Hahn of Car-mel, Ind., claimed $130K for third. The prize pool was nearly $1.5M, doubling the $750K guarantee.

The Wynn Fall Classic runs Sept. 28-Oct. 8. The $1,600 championship event begins Oct. 7 with the first of its two starting flights. It offers a $400K guarantee. A $600 tourna-ment with three starting flights begins Sept. 30 and has a $250K guarantee.

BELLAGIO: The $10,400 championship completed July 18 when Kuljinder Sidhu of Britain won the $600K first-place prize. New York’s Nick Schulman scored $557K for second and Denver’s Chance Kornuth received $285K for third. The event drew almost 270 players and the prize pool was $2.6M.

STRATOSPHERE: The popular 12-table room at the north end of the Strip continues to offer its Stratstack tournament at least one Saturday a month at noon. The tournament is a $110 buy-in for a 20K stack and 30-min-ute levels. Free pizza is served to all players at the first break (2 p.m.) so make sure you

don’t bust out before then. Or, you can just re-enter through that break.

The regular 7 p.m. runs nightly and has a $50 buy-in for 4,500 chips, 20-minute levels. There’s an optional $20 add-on for 6K more chips. On Mondays and Wednesdays, the same tournament is offered with a bounty format, and the buy-in is $70. The bounties are $20. Free pizza is served on the first break (8 p.m.), too.

The main cash game is $1-$2 NLHE with a $50-$300 min-max. Promos include high hands, which double when flopped between 11 a.m and 5 p.m. There’s a $50 high hand of the hour between 11 a.m.-noon, 2-3 p.m. and 7-8 p.m. Aces Cracked pays $50.

HARD ROCK: Just a bit east of the Strip, the Hard Rock offers two daily $70 tournaments at noon and 8 p.m. Players get 10K chips and play 20-minute levels. There’s a $600 guarantee and the tournament features a $2K bad-beat jackpot.

The cash game is $1-$3 NLHE. The minimum buy-in is $100 and there’s no cap. Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. through 5 p.m., the highest hand of each hour receives $100. Aces Cracked pays $100 during that same time. There’s a pro-gressive royal-flush bonus that starts at $300 and is capped at $2,500. High hands pay $75 for quads and straight flushes 24-7.

CLOSURE: The Linq closed its poker room in August.— Check out Rob Solomon’s blog at robvegaspoker.blogspot.com.

VENETIAN’S DSE STILL THRIVES

The next Venetian DeepStack series is Sept. 1-25.

WE

ST

Gordon Vayo of San Francisco has achieved one of the most sought-after accomplishments in the poker world: He

made the World Series of Poker Main Event final table and will be competing for the $8M first prize in November. The Northern California resident is third in chips with 49M of the 336M in play. Vayo has come close to winning a bracelet in the past with a runner-up in 2014 in the $3K six-max Event 15 ($314K) and a fourth in the 2012 $1.5K six-max Event 16 ($121K). Before this main event, he’s had 26 WSOP cashes for $608K and close to $1M live earnings in his career.

STONES GAMBLING HALL: The Citrus Heights room hosts its Fall Classic from Sept. 23-Oct. 2 with five events in the series. Some highlights are the $75K guarantee Sept. 24 ($500, 10 a.m.) and the $125K guarantee Sept. 29-Oct. 2 ($450, 10 a.m.).

TURLOCK POKER ROOM: Look for amazing player-friendly pro-motions, including a daily progressive royal jackpot, which adds $50 to each suit daily, a daily bad-beat progressive jackpot and Omaha high hands on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Tur-lock is one of the only rooms in the region to have a Mexican Poker high hand (Thurs.-Sun.).

GRATON RESORT & CASINO: The Rohnert Park property has Hot Seat Drawings, which can pay $650 per hour on Sundays (1-10 p.m.). There’s also a variety of high hands Monday through Friday (10 a.m.-10 p.m.). Aces Cracked runs Monday-Friday (midnight-8 a.m.) and the Early Bird special runs 9-10 a.m. Monday-Friday.

Pacific NorthwestLITTLE CREEK CASINO RESORT: The South Sound Fall Champion-

ship runs Sept. 5-11, including seven NLHE tournaments with a total of $7K added. There’s a Tuesday seniors event and a Sunday Survivor event. Buy-ins range from $50 for the open-ing super satellite to $340 for Saturday’s main event. Little Creek is a five-table room routinely offering $4-$8 limit and $3-$500 spread-limit.

MUCKLESHOOT CASINO: The $55K-added Summer Classic runs Sept. 14-18. Event 1 will be a $250 shootout with $4K added. Event 2 is $200 with $4K added; Event 3 is $300 with $5K added; Event 4 is $500 with $10K added and Event 5 is $750 with $20K added. The remaining $12K in added money will be distributed to the series’ top three players.

LEGAL ISSUES: The Portland Regulatory Program Adminis-trator sent a letter July 12 to the Portland-area poker “social gaming membership clubs” that said a recent Oregon Bureau of Labor ruling that only charities may use volunteer dealers implies that all locations have to go back to player-dealt games, as they were before 2010. As of this writing, two of the rooms in the city, Aces Full and PDX Poker, formerly Encore, have closed and the rest of the rooms are talking to the city and state to determine whether there are acceptable alternatives. The change in interpretation of the existing Oregon regulations will not affect the three tribal casinos that spread poker in the state as dealers there are paid employees. S

NORCAL’S VAYO LANDS IN NOVEMBER NINE

CHRIS CRONIN ARIZONA

MARY BRADLEY NEW MEXICO

DICK STEIN COLORADO

ROBERT KELLY OKLA./KANSAS

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

Southwest Ambassadors

POKER SCENE HEATING UP IN ARIZONAS

OU

TH

WE

ST

This is the hottest time of the year in Arizona, outside and in the poker room. Here is a look at some of the great

things coming up this month and beyond.CASINO DEL SOL RESORT: WPT DeepStacks brings its series to

town Sept. 16-25. Guests can pre-qualify for Event 1 and the $1,100 main event, which has a $150K guarantee and runs Sept. 23-25. Two main-event seats will be awarded every Thursday in the 7 p.m. $5K guarantee event. Four seats will be awarded every Sunday at 11 a.m. to the $270 Event 1 that has a $30K guarantee.

HARRAH’S AK-CHIN RESORT: The property has changed its week-ly tournament schedule. Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. is a $40 half hold’em-half Omaha tourney; Wednesday at 7:30 is a $40 crazy pineapple bounty event; Saturday at 12:30 p.m. features a $500 guarantee for $50 and Sunday at 12:30 is a $25 event.

As for promotions, the room has morning high hands the first three hours, $50 per hour with the best hand possibly earning a $75 bonus. There’s also the Diamondbacks Splash Pots ($50 in every inning the D’backs score and $100 if they win) and Splash Pot Bonanza ($25-$40 splash pots every half-hour). Other promotions include $50 royals and steel wheels, Aces Cracked ($100, midnight to noon; $50, noon to midnight) and Quad Floppers, which pays a progressive pot for flopping four of a kind with a pocket pair.

TALKING STICK RESORT: The 11th annual Arizona State Ladies Poker Championship runs Sept. 17-18. Buy-in is $300 for 12K chips and a $20 staff appreciation for 5K more. Both days start at 10 a.m. After this event, the Arena Fall Classic will be Oct. 14-16. Play all three days and stay at the resort for free (based on availability). Also, look for results in a future issue from the ASPC, which hadn’t concluded at press time.

Football promos started Aug. 18 and run Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Black tickets will be worth $300 for exact score and $150 for reverse scores. Any time a player a gets paid on their black ticket, their table gets a $100 splash pot. Mad money Monday will be Sept. 19, Oct. 10, Nov. 14 and Dec. 12 (noon-midnight). The high hand will receive $250 every 15 minutes for hold’em and $150 every hour for Omaha.

VEE QUIVA HOTEL & CASINO: College and pro football games will mean splashed pots most Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Thursdays. Check with the poker room for the schedule.

WILD HORSE PASS HOTEL & CASINO: Like its sister property at Vee Quiva, the poker room will splash pots during pro and college football games. Call the poker room for the schedule. Also, Aces Cracked continues on Sundays at 10 a.m. and Friday at

Meet Nathan Yanchunis


18

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

6 p.m., except during splash-pot promotions.

ColoradoBLACK HAWK: This summer has been the busiest for Ameristar.

The primary bad beat (quads) was at $350K at press time with two resets also at $350K each. There are three mini-descending bad beats left at $25K each. The past two descending $25K bad-beat qualifiers have gotten to kings full of nines before be-ing hit. The $500 every-other-hour high hands are coming back once the primary bad beat is hit. … At Golden Gates, the top 15 finishers in the Heartland Poker Tour were all from Colo-rado. Thomas Fuller, a former poker pro turned teacher, added $116,242 to his career earnings by winning the HPT’s $1,100 main event. After a long heads-up fight, Terry Harper finished sec-ond ($71,055). Dave Hampel took third ($47,100). The HPT will return to Golden Gates for another series this month with a $1,650 main event.

CRIPPLE CREEK: The Midnight Rose has something to offer ev-ery weekend, either a major tournament or a promotion. The well-attended $100 Meganormous tournament with 40K stacks is on Fridays at 4 p.m. The new $110 Flopzilla tournament will be the second and fourth Sundays at 2 p.m. with 30K stacks. The mini-bad-beat jackpot’s run-off is the first weekend of the month, when qualifications are met, and starts at aces full of nines, decreasing one notch per hour. Ultimate High Hand is the third weekend with awards and times varying throughout the three days. … The Wildwood poker room closed in August.

The new poker room manager at the Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, Colo., is known as “Cage” to his friends.

With a two-week major series nearly every other month and three daily tour-

naments, Yanchunis finds it hard to catch a breath. He has more than 20 years in the gaming industry, including dishwasher, valet, brush, poker dealer and floor.

He spent some of that time at the Gilpin Casino, also in Black Hawk, when it still had poker. When asked about playing the game, he said: “I am a lousy player.”

His favorite hand is 3-5 and maybe that explains his quotes. “They never see the wheel coming,” he said.

Playing his guitar takes up most of his free time. — Dick Stein

The three-day Labor Day main event of the Four Corners Championship at Sandia Casino will end with a picture of

the champion splashed on the cover of Ante Up. The final ex-citement of the Ante Up Poker Tour in the southwest happens Sept. 3-5, as the prize pool is expected to exceed $100K and the winner will receive a seat in the main event of the 2017 Ante Up World Championship, as well as a wad of cash. Sandia’s 15-table room stays busy every day with a variety of games that include $2-$4 and $4-$8 limit, $1-$2 and $2-$5 NLHE and $4-$8 Omaha/8.

BUFFALO THUNDER RESORT AND CASINO: Poker room manager Lar-ry Mundy was extremely happy with his tournament.

“Our $10K guaranteed $225 buy-in deepstack in July was a huge success,” he said. “With 77 entries and total prize pool of $15,400, the top winner took home a payout of $4,928.”

More highly anticipated tournaments begin Sept. 5 with the Labor Day $30 buy-in with unlimited $20 rebuys for the first hour and one $25 add-on. On Sept. 17, there’s the 107.5 ($107 buy-in) Outlaw Country bounty tournament with $107 boun-ties on Kidd Corona and five others. The $150 Last Saturday of the Month deepstack is Sept. 24.

Weekly tournaments include Sunday ($30, unlimited $20 re-buys first hour and one $25 add-on); Monday ($30, one rebuy); Tuesday ($40, one rebuy); Wednesday ($50, one rebuy); Thurs-day (Omaha/8, $30, unlimited $20 rebuys for the first hour and one $25 add-on); Friday and Saturday ($75).

There are some fine cash games running in September, too. Wednesday morning features $20-$40 hold’em, Wednesday afternoon is $1-$2 PLO half-and-half; Thursday afternoon is $4-$8 Omaha; Friday afternoon is $1-$2 PLO/8, and Saturday afternoon features $3-$6 Omaha.

INN OF THE MOUNTAIN GODS CASINO AND RESORT: The sixth annual Championship Poker semifinals and finals will be Sept. 24-25. Satellite winners duke it out Sept. 22-23 in a super qualifier. The prize pool will be $100K and first place will be $30K and a gold bracelet.

Check out the Friday morning $100 Food & Fun on Fifth Street tournament, where all players are treated to burgers and hot dogs so there’s no interruption for lunch. Friday evening is the $120 One-Twenty Tournament, along with Losers Lounge on Saturday morning for a second chance to win with no ad-ditional buy-in. Remember, the last Friday of each month is an Omaha/8 event instead of NLHE.

ISLETA CASINO: Affordable tourneys are featured here with buy-ins starting at $15. Hot September games include Tuesday and Thursday Omaha/8, NLHE and limit available 24 hours daily.

SANTA ANA STAR CASINO: There’s one busy table in the pit area with $2-$6 hold’em daily at 1 p.m., including $25 splash pots every hour on the half hour, as well as four quads-of-the-day promos that are progressives and only eligible to be hit in the hold’em game. Friday and Sunday mornings are devoted to Omaha, with $50 splash pots every hour on the half hour.

SOUTHWEST

SANDIA HOSTS AUPT MAIN EVENT SEPT. 3


The World Poker Tour’s return to Choctaw Casino in Du-rant, Okla., concluded Aug. 2 as part of the casino’s Fes-

tival of Poker Series. The $3,700 event had a $3M guarantee and drew more than 1K entries. James Mackay captured the crown, earning $681,758 for the win and a $15K seat into the WPT Tournament of Champions.

WINSTAR WORLD CASINO: The River Series wraps up Sept. 6. Its $2,500 multiday main event begins Sept. 2 and guarantees $1M for first and $2.5M overall. Day 1 will have 40-minute blind lev-els, progressing to 60 minutes for Day 2. Players start with 25K chips with 10 percent of the field advancing. Players can play multiple days or re-enter the same day if space allows.

KANSAS STAR CASINO: The eight-table room is midway into its new quarterly promotion that will lead qualifiers competing in a Tournament of Champions $10K freeroll. Players earn points for tournament entries and for their finish. The top 40 July-September point-earners qualify to play Oct. 15. La-bor Day the room will host a $350 buy-in, $15K guarantee as $50 satellites run Saturdays leading up to the event.

HOLLYWOOD CASINO KANSAS SPEEDWAY: The 13-table room con-tinues to run a variety of promotions including $100 high hands, $200 early bird high hands and a $15K monthly freeroll. First place is guaranteed $5K and a minimum of 10 places will be paid. To qualify for the freeroll, players need to put in 50 hours of play in qualifying hold’em cash games or place in the top 10 in the monthly tournament leaderboard. Cash players can earn 1.5 hours for each hour played 2 a.m.-10 a.m. each day.

AMERISTAR KANSAS CITY: The property remodeled this 13-table poker room into an enclosed room with a dedicated cage. You can find several games featured here, including $5-$5 pot-limit Omaha; $5-$5 NLHE; $5-$10 Omaha/8 with a kill and $4-$8 O/8 with a half-kill. Promotions include daily Aces Cracked, a $10K freeroll and a unique progressive bad-beat jackpot that offers payouts. Qualification into the freeroll is for August and September play. Players qualify through live play and points.

HARD ROCK CASINO: This 14-table room is featuring different games several evenings of the week. Expect to find $6-$12 Omaha/8; $5-$5 PLO; $2-$5 NLHE; $10-$20 Big O and a $10-$20 mix of Omaha/8-stud/8-Big O/8 and 2-7 Triple Draw. New to its weekly tournament schedule is a Sunday-Fri-day daily 10 a.m. $35 no-juice tournament.

DOWNSTREAM CASINO: The room has tournaments every day except Mondays and Thursdays. There’s also a Sunday $45 crazy-pineapple tourney with an optional $20 add-on. Most tournaments, if players register at least 30 minutes ahead, offer a 1K-chip bonus.

HARRAH’S NORTH KANSAS CITY: The RunGoodGear.com series runs Sept. 13-18. Hotel rooms are available for a 25 percent discount using code RGPTKC. The series opens with a $10K guarantee ($100 turbo shootout, 120-player cap). Also on the calendar is a two-day $180 two-flight $20K guarantee and the multi-day, three-flight $675 event with a $100K guarantee main event. There will be $160 satellites with guaranteed seats into the main event. The PPC series runs Sept. 28-Oct. 2. S

SOUTHWEST

MACKAY WINS WPT IN OKLA.

DAVE LEMMON SOUTH FLORIDA

[email protected]

BESTBET JAX HOSTING $1M WPTThe World Poker Tour returns to bestbet Jacksonville on

Sept. 30-Oct. 18. The televised $5K main event has a $1M guarantee and two flights Oct. 14-15 at noon. The series has 20-plus events, including bounty, PLO and Big O/8. More info, including the schedule, is in the ad on the facing page.

The room’s recent $100K guarantee saw Jermaine Gerlin of Jacksonville win the $350 buy-in event and $25,907. The tourney drew 418 players for a $125K prize pool. Conrad Lau of Neptune Beach was second ($20K) and David Trager of Jack-sonville was third ($10,404). Also, the 1010XL $110 bounty event drew 117 players for a $10K prize pool as Derek Wilitson of Atlantic Beach took the title and $3K.

DAYTONA BEACH KENNEL CLUB: The Heartland Poker Tour re-turns Sept. 15-26, opening with a $250 Monster Stack on Sept. 15 and highlighted by the $1,650 main event, which has three Day 1s (Sept. 22-24). See the ad on Page 53 for more details, including the qualifier schedule.

CREEK GRETNA ENTERTAINMENT: There are a couple of special tourneys running this month. Don’t miss the $10K guarantee, which has a $270 buy-in and runs Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. The other event is a $5K guarantee with a $120 buy-in on Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. There are $60 satellites on select Saturdays at 1 p.m. and on all Thursdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 1.

PENSACOLA GREYHOUND TRACK: Every Wednesday night at 7 is a $2,500 guarantee, plus $2K guarantees for $60 are on Fri-days and Saturdays at 7. Two $10K guarantees highlight the schedule this month on Sept. 10 and 24 for $270. Satellites to these $10K events run Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays at 1. See the ad on Page 61 for more info.

EBRO GREYHOUND PARK: Here’s a look at some of the daily tour-nament offerings in the Panhandle room: Fat Stack Tuesday with six levels of re-entry ($30 with $10 add-on, 6.30 p.m.); Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights with four levels of re-entry ($110, 6.30); Sunday deepstack ($200, 2 p.m.). For a full schedule, call 850-535-4048, ext. 180. And ask about the Big Easy Bad Beat Jackpot and the Omaha Bad Beat Jackpot.

BESTBET ORANGE PARK: In tournament news, the recent $30K guarantee drew 320 players for a $52K prize pool. Louis Wash-ington of Jacksonville won the top prize of $10,500, followed by fellow Jacksonville players Huston Van Doren ($6K) and Jeff Olive ($4,488). Also, the poker room launched one-, two- and three-card poker, Pai Gow and Ultimate Texas Hold’em on July 29.

MissouriAMERISTAR ST. CHARLES: Some of the best tournaments in St.

South Ambassadors

Louis are happening here every weekend. The action kicks off every Friday at 6 p.m. with the $100 bounty event ($25 boun-ties, $20K stacks, 30-minute levels), continuing on Saturday at 4 p.m. with the $110 Grand Maker, where a cash is good for $1K.

Then make a weekend of it by heading back on Sunday at noon for the $150 Mystery Bounty tournament featuring a $250 overlay, $20K starting stacks and 30-minute levels. One player is randomly selected at the beginning of the tournament and whoever eliminates that player collects $150 (compared to $50 for everyone else) and the mystery bounty receives a free buy-in to the next week’s tournament. The daily $60 tournaments, Monday-Thursday at noon and 6, are a great value with 10K starting stacks, 20-minute blinds and 95 percent of the buy-in going to the prize pool.

Meet Jessie VizcainoA 31-year-old amateur originally from

Jacksonville, Jesse Vizcaino started playing around eight years ago in Las Vegas.

What’s your favorite thing about poker? I love the feeling I get from attempting to

read someone and then nailing their hand. When you can get into an opponent’s mind, figure out the way he plays and dissect his brain, then roll the hands over and see exactly what you put him on. That’s just a good feel-ing. It really helps with the competitive edge and gives an extra boost of confidence to bring my game to the next level.

What’s your best experience in poker? There’s not one particu-lar moment that springs to mind, but I think one of the best experiences for me as a tournament player is going extra deep in a huge field. There’s this moment on Day 2 or Day 3 where you’re sitting there looking up at the clock, take a deep breath and see 12 players left out of 800 or so, when you realize you’re one of them, that’s a relief.

And what about life outside of poker? I just got married and that’s amazing. I do triathlons, which are just as much about mental toughness as well as physical. There’s so much en-durance involved and to bring it back to poker, I think it’s a lot like those long runs. Whether it’s taking a bad beat and seeing this stack you’ve worked on get broken in half or you’re on those last few miles and your body wants to stop and you’re feet are blistered and bleeding, just breath, col-lect yourself and keep moving. Your mind will get you there, even if your body can’t. — Charles Allison

SO

UT

H

[email protected]

SARA MALOWITZCENTRAL FLORIDA

CHARLES ALLISONNORTH FLORIDA

[email protected]

JENNIFER GAY MISS./ARK.

[email protected]

DANNY WADE LOUISIANA

[email protected]

TODD LAMANSKY MISSOURI

[email protected]

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

SO

UT

H

The Isle Casino’s poker room in Pompano Beach, Fla., has hosted some of the most attractive tournaments in the

Southeast since Florida began allowing high-stakes events in 2010. While its biggest event of the year, the Florida State Pok-er Championship, has seen decreasing buy-ins over the past several years, the main event still attracts most of the area’s stars with the first major event after the World Series.

For the second straight year, just $1,500 got you a seat at the tables to face off with South Florida’s best players, a fraction of the $5,300 buy-in the tourney demanded in 2011-12. Still, a $500K guarantee is nothing to sneeze at and as the event rolled into Day 2, 124 players remained from the field of 431, including former World Poker Tour POY Mukul Pahuja and a large group of established champions such as Matt Waxman, Loni Harwood, David Diaz and the 2015 winner of this event, Joey Cou-den. While all five of those players would cash, most of them were of the min-cash variety except for Diaz, who took home $4,655 for 17th. November Niner Jerry Wong, who will head back to the Rio for the WSOP main event’s final table on Oct. 30 eighth in the chips, made the final nine here as well, taking home, coincidentally, eighth place.

In the end, it was a struggle for several hours among the final four players before Chad Eveslage was eliminated and the remaining trio began talking a chop in ear-nest. When the discussion ended, it was Sam Panzica, who had finished eighth in this tournament a year ago, who was awarded the trophy and adjusted earnings of $117K. Boynton Beach resident Isaiah Goldman collected $97K for second and Miami’s Victor Figueroa took home $87K for third.

Goldman was the intriguing character among this final group, mainly because his career tournament earnings totaled less than $1,500 from just two cashes, a fact made understand-able when Goldman revealed he rarely plays tournaments. He considers himself a cash-game player and is a regular at a big-stakes game locally at Gulfstream Park. So when asked

why he entered this event, Goldman said, jokingly, “My good friend Roman (Soybelman) finished in the top 80 at the WSOP main event and he’s a terrible tournament player, as am I, so he inspired me to actually take a shot at a tournament. … I think it’s tough to stay focused in tournaments and we both get a little impatient, but with this success maybe I’ll give it a whirl again.”

For Panzica, who refused an interview request after receiv-ing his trophy, the payday was his best on American soil, trail-ing only a victory in Dublin this year at an EPT event where he cashed for 375K euros. He is ranked No. 85 in the world on the Global Poker Index.

SEMINOLES EVENTS: While the Seminole Tribe continues to re-ceive acclaim from the poker world for its successful events at the flagship facility in Hollywood, the group will shift some national focus to events in two smaller locations in September.

The Seminole Casino Hotel Immokalee will host a WPT DeepStacks series for the second straight year in its new poker room, which opened shortly before last year’s event. This year’s schedule will be played Sept. 2-11 with six major tourneys, in-cluding a $1,100 buy-in main event with two opening sessions

at noon on Sept. 9-10. The prize pool guarantee for the main has been doubled from last year to an impressive $200K,

and including satellites and several $125 turbos, there will be 24 events. The casino is about 100 miles west of Ft. Lauderdale and about 30 miles northeast of Na-ples, near State Road 29 north of Alligator Alley.The Coco Poker Open will begin a 15-event run at

Seminole Casino Coconut Creek on Sept. 21 with a $240 Omaha/8 event featuring a $10K guarantee and will conclude on Oct. 2.

This series will have a $2,500 buy-in, $1M guaranteed championship event (Event 3) from Sept. 23-26, which will offer a $1M guarantee and 25K chips. Later in the series, a $250K guarantee will have six opening sessions from Sept. 29-Oct. 1 for $350, which will get you 16K chips.

PANZICA WINS FSPC IN S. FLA.

MERCHANDISE

anteupmagazine.com/shop

SO

UT

H

The dream of every poker player is winning the WSOP main event: single entry, gigantic field and one brace-

let everyone would love to boast but less than 50 have ever claimed. Steve Trizis, owner of the Country Skillet in Clearwater and co-manager of the Derby Lane Poker League, won his main-event seat and went to fulfill that dream. The ride would last four days but come to an abrupt end 391 places from that goal. His 392nd-place finish earned $28K, his biggest tourna-ment cash, and weeks removed from his ninth-place finish in the WPT Tampa Hard Rock DeepStacks series. It has been an incredible couple of months for Trizis.

TAMPA BAY DOWNS: The PPC North American Championship recently finished at the Silks Poker Room. Alex Ivan won the first event for $12,700 and the $5K Aruba package. Mike Beattie, who won $38K in a recent Rio deepstacks event in Las Ve-gas, was second for $7,850 and an Aruba package. Third place went to Danny Lobato.

The $600 main event, which had a $100K guarantee, drew 241 runners and paid six Aruba packages to the PPC champi-onship. Armando Figueroa took the trophy, $16K in a four-way deal. Freddie Kirkland took second ($13K), Brett Streicher was third ($12,750) and Mark Simmons won $9,826. All four players earned Aruba packages.

The Fall Classic runs Sept. 14-18. See the ad on Page 31.NAPLES-FT. MYERS GREYHOUND TRACK: Continuing its Florida

run, the PPC went down the coast for its $300 event ($50K

guarantee), which saw Jim Plate take the championship in a three-way deal for $9,850 plus an Aruba package. Larry Lipman and Michael Smith each earned $9,100 and an Aruba package.

HARD ROCK TAMPA: A $150K guarantee for a $150 seems like a ton of money. But when 1,826

players come out for an event, $200K seems like child’s play. And for Federico Camara and his $39K win, he was pleased to see the masses enter the tourney. Runner-up Jeffrey

Thompson took home $25K and Robert Irby was third ($16K). The total prize pool was

$219K and other cashers of note included June’s WPT DeepStacks Tampa Player of the Series Karl Manoucha-kian (eighth, $5,368), Antuan Bunkley (31st, $811), Herbert Wood-bery (60th, $504) and Tom Nguyen (91st, $340). The room’s Little Slick series is 12-18.

DERBY LANE: Another mainstay event in the Tampa Bay area, the $150 Accumulator had a $100K guarantee. The prize pool ballooned past $150K and the 130 returning players fought for a nice $29K payday.

However, after playing all of Sunday, three players chopped the remaining money for nearly $20K each. Mike “Gascard” Col-lins and Quan Phui were among the choppers.

SEMINOLE IMMOKALEE: The WPT DeepStacks runs Sept. 2-11, including a $200K guarantee for the main event. The series will have 24 events.

TRIZIS RIDES DREAM FROM C. FLA. TO VEGAS

By Scott Long

If you missed last year’s Ante Up Poker Tour at Pearl River Resort, which was fresh off completing $70 million in reno-

vations, you have another chance Oct. 28-Nov. 9 with an even bigger and better series.

“Last year, we had a $100,000 tournament and a $50,000 tournament. We wanted to sweeten the pot a little,” said Denise Dahl, poker room manager at Pearl River Resort in Choctaw, Miss. “This year’s Pearl River Poker Open will feature two

$100,000 tournaments. We have adjusted buy-in amounts to appeal to a wide range of players. And, our very popular seniors event has been extended to a two-day event this year.”

And even with all of those changes, the highlight of this year’s event remains the $800 buy-in main event, which will feature four starting flights and a $100K guarantee. As with all championship AUPT series, the winner of that tournament will appear in the cover of Ante Up and get an entry in the main event of the 2017 Ante Up World Championship. But there’s plenty more on this year’s schedule, including two other multiday events, an Omaha/8 event and a Monster Stack event that features 30K units and 30-minute levels.

“When our team was in the process of designing the sched-ule, it was very important for us to create a variety of events and buy-ins that would appeal to a wide range of poker play-ers,” Dahl said. “Designing this type of schedule is just one of the ways that our team is continually working hard to provide our poker players with the best experience possible.”

Part of providing that best experience possible is giving play-ers a number of ways to qualify events as inexpensively as possi-ble, with not only plenty of satellites during the event, but satel-lites beginning well before the series starts. Four mega satellites beginning Oct. 30 will each have four main-event seats added to the prize pool by Pearl River Resort.

“Our local players are the backbone of our poker room and it’s important for us to make every effort to show them just how much we appreciate them,” Dahl said. “Last year, we offered satellites four weeks prior to the Pearl River Poker Open. It was such a success that we decided to run these satellites 10 weeks prior to this year’s event.”

Owned and operated by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Pearl River Resort features two hotel-casinos, Silver Star and Golden Moon, that together offer more than 1,000 hotel rooms, 2,400 slot machines and 59 table games, as well as the Dancing Rabbit Golf Club, Geyser Falls Water Theme

Park and numerous dining and entertainment options. The re-sort features a stylish and roomy 14-table poker room for cash games and a separate and intimate tournament area walled off from the casino where the Pearl River Poker Open events will play out.

To ensure a well-run event, Director of Table Games Neal Atkinson has again hired the crew led by Paul Dutsch that includes Heather and George Ohlman, Jo Cain, Brannon Kingston, Mark Drewes and Mellissa Williams to direct the series.

“The staff we’ve assembled for the Pearl River Poker Open are veterans of some of the most prestigious events in the country, including WSOP and WPT events,” At-kinson said. “While they travel from all over the country, they are all familiar to

players who have spent time in the Southern tournament poker scene.”

And it’s those Southern players that make the Pearl River Poker Open a special one on the AUPT schedule.

“I began my poker career in Vegas,” Dahl said. “The first time I walked into Pearl River Resort, I was so amazed at how much it reminded me of a casino on the Strip. I felt as if I was in Vegas, with one exception, Southern hospitality. It is appar-ent with our wonderful resort associates and best of all, our poker players.” S

30

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

AUPT AT PEARL RIVER RESORT

C: 19 M: 100Y: 100K: 10

C: 25 M: 44Y: 84K: 4

C: 42 M: 84Y: 74K: 64

C: 0 M: 0Y: 0K: 100

PEARL RIVER

SO

UT

H

AUPT AT PEARL RIVER IS OCT. 28The Choctaw, Miss., property, which hosts the series through Nov. 6, has added even more value.

Pearl River Poker OpenFor more info, including a schedule of satellites, visit AnteUpMagazine.Com/Pearl River.Oct. 28, noon - EVENT 1, Day 1A: $340 ($100K guarantee)Oct. 28, 5 p.m. - EVENT 1, Day 1B: $340 ($100K guarantee)Oct. 29, 11 a.m. - EVENT 1, Day 1C: $340 ($100K guarantee)Oct. 29, 5 p.m. - EVENT 1, Day 1D: $340 ($100K guarantee)Oct. 30, 1 p.m. - EVENT 1: Day 2Oct. 30, 2 p.m. - EVENT 2: $160 (single re-entry)Oct. 31, 11 a.m. - EVENT 3, Day 1A: $230 Seniors Oct. 31, 7 p.m. - EVENT 4: $120 (single re-entry)Nov. 1, 11 a.m. - EVENT 3, Day 1B: $230 SeniorsNov. 2, 11 a.m. - EVENT 3: Day 2Nov. 2, noon - EVENT 5: $120 (single re-entry)Nov. 2, 4 p.m. - EVENT 6: $230 Omaha/8Nov. 3, noon - EVENT 7: $230 Monster StackNov. 4, noon - MAIN EVENT, Day 1A: $800 ($100K guarantee)Nov. 4, 6 p.m. - MAIN EVENT, Day 1B: $800 ($100K guarantee)Nov. 5, 11 a.m. - MAIN EVENT, Day 1C: $800 ($100K guarantee)Nov. 5, 5 p.m. - MAIN EVENT, Day 1D: $800 ($100K guarantee)Nov. 6, 1 p.m. - MAIN EVENT: Day 2 Nov. 6, 2 p.m. - EVENT 9: $160 deepstack (single re-entry)

SO

UT

H BIG SERIES RUNNING SIMULTANEOUSLY IN MISS.The fall is nearly here and it’s time for poker season in Mis-

sissippi. In Biloxi, two of the state’s best events of the year are running simultaneously.

At the IP, the World Series of Poker Circuit returns after a year off, hoping to draw crowds and competition from the Gulf Coast Poker Championship just over the bridge at the Beau Rivage. The IP’s lineup features 12 events in 11 days. This event follows the standard WSOPC model. Historically, events at the IP have had smaller turnouts, frequently with difficulty meeting guarantees for big tournaments. This gives you a huge advantage in the points race to the national championship and an edge when competing for circuit jewelry. If you want to try your hand in professional tournaments but don’t necessarily feel like wading through a thousand other entrants, this will be your series. The circuit stop is Sept. 8-19.

If big crowds and huge guarantees are more your speed, the Beau Rivage will give you your fill during the GCPC. You’ll be competing for large prize pools against familiar faces. This tournament series is the first under new poker room manager Henry Garrison and tournament director Paul Dutsch. The GCPC also runs Sept. 8-19. The structure includes some variety along with huge guarantees and regular nightly events. Opening weekend features a $200K guarantee Monster Stack. For struc-tures and information, check out beaupoker.com.

Where else can you find two world-class tournament series within three miles of each other, all on the same dates? Add in the bonus of being on the beautiful Gulf Coast in the fall and

you have a fantastic chance at a vacation. Both properties are offering special room rates for players but are expected to sell out so book now.

Louisiana

COUSHATTA CASINO: The $550 Summer Blowout ended July 24 after at-tracting 174 players for an $84K prize pool. The event ended in a 15-way chop as Francis Krumrey and Dane Morris each earned $7K. William Dehart, Mitchell Lindley, Randall Alleman, Captain Ron-nie Hope, Kinney Fitzgerald, Donald Ripley, Lindsey Lee, Robert Hermiz, Thomas Fleure, Michael Choyke, John Martin, James Appling, Clayton Mc-Gough, Gregory Mihaly, Paul Medica, Darrell Rowland, Mitchell Maples and Alvin Grospiroh each took home $4,995.

ELDORADO RESORT CASINO: Qualifying for November’s $80K freeroll is running until Oct. 17. Each Thursday-Sunday in September, players will earn 2X points for rated play on all cash games and tournaments. On Sept. 29-30, players will earn 3X points for the same rated play. More opportunities to qualify will be Oct 5-8 and Oct. 12-17.

The final tournament and qualifying flights will be Nov. 4-6. The top 100 players will qualify for the freeroll. For more de-tails, call the poker room. S

Morris and Krumrey

Meet Nancy MartinNo other woman has as many tour-

nament cashes at the Borgata and Parx casinos as Nancy Martin. She’s in the top 10 all time at both properties.

How did you get into poker tournaments? My son, Michael, is the one who got me in-

volved in poker to begin with. He was one of the original online grinders when online poker first came into existence. ... I would come home from work and I was able to watch him play from my home. He used to tell me his hands so that I could see how he played them. He then encouraged me to set up my own online account, which I did.

You seldom miss any tournaments with value in the region. Is there a schedule you typically follow throughout the year? I do have a full-time job as a Realtor in Bucks County, which I’ve been doing now for 30 years, so my poker schedule definitely revolves around my work schedule. Consequent-ly, I don’t get to travel much, so my poker playing is limited to events at Parx, Borgata and SugarHouse. The one good thing about real estate is that a lot of my work can be done while I’m out of the office. Many times in tournaments, you’ll see me negotiating a deal while on break and I usu-ally joke when I come back to the table that I just made final-table money on the phone.

How do you manage your bankroll? Since I have another job that supports my poker playing, my bankroll manage-ment is not as worrisome as someone who only plays poker for a living. That’s not to say that I’m willing to squander what I earn playing poker. I play in a lot of satellites to win seats into many of the events and, fortunately, my suc-cess rate in satellites and survivor tournaments is probably in the 80-percent-plus range.

If I’m not winning a seat, you’ll usually find me playing cash to win my buy-in before an event begins. ... The more satellites they have, the more players they will get, it’s that simple. — Jo Kim

SMITH WINS $51K IN CONN. KICKOFFGuy Smith beat 216 players to win the $1,100 championship

of the Summer Kickoff at Foxwoods Casino in Mashan-tucket, Conn. The win paid $51,149.

A resident of Milford, Conn., Smith had nine cashes after the event. He has more than $132K in live winnings.

Nils Dahlin was second, a performance worth $25K. Playing out of Wilmington, N.C.., Dahlin has five cashes, including one at the World Series, in his career.

The third-place finisher was Joseph Cortese, who earned $22,494. Gerald Aiello, who was fourth, also took home $22,494. The cash was the fifth for Cortese, while Aiello has 25 cashes. From Winchester, Mass., Aiello has $108,452 in earnings.

Ricardo Sousa collected $12,630, the richest payday of his ca-reer, for finishing fifth. Of his five cashes, four have come at Foxwoods.

The total prize pool for the championship was $210,490. Carmelo Schepis opened the Summer Kickoff with a win in a

$400 event. He collected $51,543 for the victory, his first play-ing live. He has seven cashes, including five at Foxwoods.

Connecticut resident L.J. Sande, who was sixth in the champi-onship, took second, which paid $32,487. Sande has six cashes and more than $53K in winnings.

Nicholas Fava pocketed $22,974 for third, while Sean Haley, who was fourth, took away $16,788.

Fava has four cashes, all at Foxwoods. Haley, from Massa-chusetts, cashed for the fifth time. Like Fava, all of his cashes have come at Foxwoods.

Steven Brackesy was fifth in the opening event, which had a prize pool of $304,532, surpassing the guarantee by more than $100K. There were 897 entries.

Brackesy, who lives in Waltham, Mass., was paid $12,665. The winner of Event 8 of the Foxwoods Poker Classic in March, he has 36 cashes and more than $381K in earnings.

Looking ahead, Foxwoods hosts the World Poker Finals, which has $15M in guarantees, from Oct. 1-17. The $2,700 main event has a $500K guarantee with two Day 1s (Oct. 14-15). The $600 opener, with three Day 1s (Oct. 1-3) also has a $500K guarantee. For more details and the series schedule, see the ad on Page 41.

New YorkTURNING STONE: Michael Ferrer edged Nicholas Forgione to win the

$570 main event of the Summer Classic and $12,868. For-gione got $12,086 for second, while William Darling collected $9,332 for third. There were 170 players in the main event.

Northeast Ambassadors

Looking ahead, Turning Stone’s poker room hosts an Octo-ber Poker Weekend series Oct. 6-9 , centered around a $100K guarantee event that had three Day 1s. The entire weekend will feature a variety of qualifiers for this tournament. See the ad on Page 38 for more details.

34

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

NO

RT

HE

AS

T

DAVID LUKOW CT-NY-MASS-CAN.

[email protected]@anteupmagazine.com [email protected]

MICHAEL YOUNG MID-ATLANTIC

JO KIM AC-PHILLY

BRIAN BLY WEST PA.

[email protected]


Just three months after reopening its poker

room, the Trump Taj Mahal will close its doors to the casino after Labor Day on Sept 5.

Atlantic City’s iconic poker venue, which was solidified as poker’s must-see location in the 1998 classic Round-ers, had high hopes for the reopening after closing in February 2015, with installment of new TVs and refurbished decor. Dur-ing its prime, the Taj was the heart of the poker industry be-fore the boom of the Chris Moneymaker era saw a proliferation of poker rooms open throughout the country, especially in the northeast.

It’s no secret the Atlantic City casino industry continues to struggle, and has since casinos and poker rooms opened in Connecticut in the 1990s, followed by properties springing up in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland over the past decade.

Investor Carl Icahn bought Donald Trump’s casino operations out of bankruptcy in March, but now blames striking workers for the property’s inability to turn around its misfortunes.

SUGARHOUSE: The SugarRush Challenge is Sept. 21-25. See the details in the ad on the facing page.

PARX: The Big Stax 300 broke the East Coast record for tour-nament attendance, accumulating 2,557 entrants during the seven-day schedule. The five final players standing were Greg Weber, Tam Nguyen, Chad Rusow, Tony Cheng and Chris Horter.

Horter took home $90,556, a big chunk of the prize pool, along with the trophy, while the rest chopped the remaining sum. Horter, who was the 2014 New Jersey Online Player of the Year, has been under the radar as a live tournament player until this year. That’s not to say he hasn’t cashed or played any live poker.

“I definitely prefer to play online and probably play it 10-1 vs. live on average per year,” he said. “Of course, I will always play the big openers of all the various series. I do have some dusty wins in a couple of live dailies, but nothing that comes with hardware like this one to prove it.”

He admits he’s a product of the poker boom. “I got into poker around the Moneymaker boom, playing

poker rooms in the area,” he said, “but I’m still one who will be usually found in the room of the hotel grinding away on my laptop. In ’04, my dad would go around to different un-derground poker rooms a few nights a week during that time. I would play 25 cent-50 cent with some friends in house games in those days, occasionally organizing a $20-$50 house (tourna-ment), which was always my favorite. It wasn’t really until 2012, however, that I was introduced to players who really showed me how little I truly understood about this game we play. Ever since then, I’ve been working to get better every day.”

NORTHEAST

TRUMP TAJ MAHAL CLOSING ON SEPT. 5

Continued on next page


NORTHEAST

And Horter always has been great in choosing live tourna-ments with the most value.

“I look at various factors such as field size and structure when deciding where to play,” he said. “but sometimes it’s more about being comfortable and happy, which for me recently has been staying close to home. … I mainly like to go for all the events that pay $50K-plus for $1K and under in this area. I will say there’s something that should be said about going to the places where not many pros go to increase your chance at grabbing the win if you get deep.”

He has earned $600K-plus in live cashes over the past nine years. Horter came close to winning the opener at the 2016 Borgata Spring Open, finishing third for $90,535.

Cheng, who chopped the BS300 for $65,575 in 3rd place, was also at the Borgata Opener Final Table with Horter where he finished 10th for a little more than $12,000.

“Horter’s a pretty good player,” Cheng said. “He’s obviously very experienced. Everyone agreed to chop. I didn’t mind play-ing it down, but who could say no to a nice payday with Chris at the table?”

Cheng has more than $180K on his poker resume. “I will continue playing strictly poker tournaments,” Cheng

said. “I’ve been playing the game since high school but really began to understand poker for the past two years. I’m still hop-ing for more of what’s best to come.”

BORGATA: Joshua Gordon was crowned the BPO spring champi-on after four hours of playing heads-up against Paul Volpe, who had won the Borgata Winter Open for $356,255. Volpe had just come home after cashing in nine World Series of Poker events and winning a bracelet in Event 15 ($1,500 eight-game mix) for $149,943. His second-place Borgata finish paid him $189,103 to add to his $5.3M career earnings.

“I feel great about it,” Volpe said. “I’m happy to be running well.” Gordon, primarily a cash player, collected his biggest payout for $336,331, outlasting 557 entrants.

Mid-AtlanticDOVER DOWNS: The Delaware Poker Championship runs Aug.

31-Sept. 5 with seven events. If you’re picking this issue up in time, the kickoff event ($115) is Aug. 31 with a $5K guaran-tee (11:15 a.m.). Sept. 1 is the $5K guarantee pot-limit Omaha championship.

The $100K main event has two Day 1s (Sept. 2-3) starting at 10:30 a.m., with a $560 buy-in. Day 1 will play to Level 14. Day 2 will start Sept. 3.

The $225 bounty championship is Sept. 2 (7:15 p.m., $100 bounties) with a $10K guarantee.

The turbo event is Sept. 3 (7:15 p.m., $75) with 15-minute blinds and a $5K guarantee.

On Sept. 4, the room runs its $115 deepstack championship (11:15 a.m.) with 25K chips and a $5K guarantee.

The $5K finale is Sept. 5 (11:15 a.m., $45).MARYLAND LIVE: The World Poker Tour runs Sept. 23-Oct. 5

with 11 events and more than $2M in guarantees. The main event begins Oct. 1 and sports a $1.5M guarantee. See the ad on Page 7 for the schedule of events. S

Continued from previous page

[email protected]

CHAD HOLLOWAY WISCONSIN

MINNESOTA’S FALL CLASSIC IN OCTOBERMinnesota’s premiere poker series, the Fall Poker Classic,

returns to Canterbury Park in Shakopee on Oct. 1-16. The Ultimate $100K event, which precedes the series, should have a big turnout judging by last year’s 1,114 entrants. The series boasts 19 daytime events as well as 10 bonus evening events. Buy-ins range from $125 to $2,500 and cover a variety of formats, so there’s sure to be something for every player.

If you are a fan of Omaha, you can play two Omaha/8 events and a Big O event. The $340 two-day HORSE event returns, as does the popular Tag Team evening event. Other events include a seniors tourney, a women’s event and a six-max tournament. For serious NLHE players, there’s a $550 event, a $2,500 high roller and, of course, the $1,100 main event. Last year’s series had more than $1.4M in combined prize pools and more than 5,700 entries, so this year promises to be another can’t-miss series. See the ad on the facing page for the tournament schedule and more details.

RUNNING ACES: Jereme Lindorff of Maplewood, Minn., and Je-romie Songetay of Hinckley, Minn., chopped the Anniversary Tournament in July. Each player took home $23,502, but Lin-dorff got the official win. This was the largest career cash for both players, according to Hendon Mob. The $280 event had drew 825 entries (667 in 2015). The prize pool was $173,260.

IowaThe second annual Iowa State Championship at Meskwaki

Casino, in conjunction with the Mid-States Poker Tour, broke the state attendance record for a $1K-plus buy-in event with 451 entrants, generating a $451K prize pool July 22-24.

Hao “John” Sun topped the field, taking home $104,627 after defeating the last of his rivals, Cory McCarthy. Sun ran down McCarthy’s 5-to-1 chip lead in heads-up play and took the win when his pair of nines held off McCarthy’s open-ended straight draw. McCarthy settled for $62,216.

“It feels great,” Sun said after the win, which shot him to the top of the MSPT Player of the Year race with 3,200 points (800 ahead of T.J. Thondup). “I guess I’ll follow the MSPT for Season 7 now,”

HORSESHOE COUNCIL BLUFFS: In the final weekend of July, Richard Arndt won the iNinja Poker Tournament Main Event for $29,257. Runner-up Scott Zajicek pocketed $18,330 when Arndt’s straight beat his pocket pair on the final hand. This event also had a great turnout for a mid-level event drawing 803 entries, topping the state record of 743.

The Horseshoe continues with another tournament series

Midwest Ambassadors

this month, hosting the Poker Players Championship on Sept 21-25. The main event has a $100K guarantee and the top-four players receive a $5K trip to Aruba to play in the PPC Champi-onship. The buy-in is $500 and look for great cash games.

RIVERSIDE CASINO & GOLF RESORT: The property hosts the WPT DeepStacks series Sept. 23-Oct 3. Tournaments in the series range from $130 to the $1,100 main event.

DIAMOND JO CASINO: The Worth property will hold its ninth an-nual Poker Bash on Sept. 2-3 with a $250 event. The bad-beat jackpot was $205K-plus at press time, giving you another great reason to play there.

Meet Brandon FishBrandon Fish had an impressive 2015

on the World Series of Poker Circuit, winning his second WSOPC ring in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and scoring two

second-place finishes at the WSOPC in Hammond, Ind. This Kearney, Neb., pro

has amassed $235K-plus in WSOP tournaments.How did you get your start in poker? I got my start in poker

like most players; I started messing around on Party Poker. I had some success and eventually dived into PokerStars pret-ty hard during college. A weekly home game with friends helped get me even more hooked. I had a small landscaping and mowing company, which I enjoyed for the most part, being outside and getting good exercise. I never was afraid of the hard work, however, I was making a lot less money at it than I was online and working harder, so I adopted the philosophy I practice now, work smarter rather than harder.

How long have you been a full-time pro and how did you decide to make that leap? I’m a full-time pro because it’s what makes me the most happy and I’m having great success at it and have for years. I have a college degree and experimented with insurance and as a sales manager. Even though I am a people person, I was miserable and knew that wasn’t the life for me. I see too many people hating their jobs day-in day-out and have decided this will never be me.

What goals have you set for yourself? My poker goals would be cashing a lot in upcoming events, getting another ring or two. Either way, I will consider it winning if I can con-tinue to make a good living, doing what I love the most. — Ken Warren

42

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

MID

WE

ST

[email protected]

KEN WARREN IOWA

[email protected]

JOE GIERTUGAILLINOIS/INDIANA

JOHN SOMSKY MINNESOTA

[email protected]@gmail.com

SCOTT MILLER MICHIGAN

BRIAN BLY OHIO/W. PA./[email protected]

MIDWEST

Chicagoland players enjoy deep WSOP runsAt the World Series of Poker Main Event, there were 202

players from Illinois and 64 from Indiana as John Cynn from In-dianapolis came close to making the final table, finishing 11th ($650K). Lance Keating from Algonquin was tops in Illinois (32nd, $216K). Several locals went deep, including former Sun-Times writer Frank Rusnak (123rd, $49K) and 2012 Ante Up Chicago Charity Classic winner Fadi “Freddy” Hamad (105th, $49K).

Richard Roeper, who was in town for the WSOP, won the super-mega deepstack turbo at the Golden Nugget ($6,500).

BLUE CHIP CASINO: The poker room is running a $2-$5 no-limit hold’em game on Fridays at 5 p.m. The buy-in is $200-$1K min-$1K max. Once the game is running, all buy-ins or rebuys will be $200 to the max chip count on the table. Also, the main bad-beat jackpot at press time was $19K for quad sevens.

WINDY CITY POKER CHAMPIONSHIP: Amateur Enrico Mirabelli came out on top of a tough field that included defending champ David Gutfreund and previous champ Michael Sabbia, along with Chi-cago-area players Ron Roeper, Ron Magers and HPT legend Craig Casino.

MAJESTIC STAR CASINO: The maiden series of America’s Poker Tour runs here Sept. 22-Oct. 2, including a $1,100 main event, which as two flights Sept. 29-30.

WSOPC: The circuit returns to Horseshoe Southern Indiana (Sept. 29-Oct. 10) and Horseshoe Hammond (Oct. 13-24) with back-to-back stops. The schedules weren’t ready by press time.Ohio

JACK CLEVELAND CASINO: At press time, the bad-beat jackpots for hold’em were $26K (primary), $17,500 (secondary) and $15,700 (tertiary); Omaha was $17K.

JACK CINCINNATI CASINO: At press time, the bad-beat jackpot for hold’em was $25K

WisconsinHO-CHUNK GAMING WISCONSIN DELLS: The PPC Midwest Poker

Classic returned in late July for a week of tournaments. Among those to walk away with titles were Ryan Friese, who won Event 1 ($120 NLHE) for $1,577 and a $1,360 PPC Aruba Package; Mi-chael Hanson, who not only won $1,650 in Event 2 ($120 pot-limit Omaha), but then took down Event 4 ($175 double green-chip bounty) for $1,836 and a $1,700 Aruba package; and PPC am-bassador Mark “P0ker H0” Kroon, who won Event 3 ($120 seniors) for $1,663 and a $1,500 Aruba package.

As for the Midwest Poker Classic’s $350 main event, a tour-nament that attracted 258 entries, Kroon also took down that ti-tle, which came a year after he finished ninth in the same event. Kroon struck a three-handed deal with Larry Beilfuss and Pete Schmall that saw each man lock up $10K plus an Aruba package.

POTAWATOMI HOTEL & CASINO: In late July, the $350 Mid-States Poker Tour regional event drew 1,169 entrants, the largest tour-nament field in Wisconsin history. In the end, 34-year-old Vinh Tran of Aurora, Ill., emerged victorious after a heads-up deal with Ryan Gatrel that saw both players take home $49,944.

Milwaukee’s John Sun finished seventh, but after that he won the Iowa State Championship. Please read the Iowa entry in this report for details of his historic victory. S


Chris Alchenberger Harrah’s Philadelphia

Genelyn Anderson Midnight Rose Casino Hotel

Jon Beasley Nevada Poker League

Mario Deif Seminole Coconut Creek

Joe DiPietro Seminole Coconut Creek

Scotty Du Pont Mohegan Sun

Michael Gragg Aria Las Vegas

Dan McFate Jumer’s Casino & Hotel

Natalie Webb Leach Golden Nugget & MGM

Matthew Melendez Thunder Valley

Sergio Perez Hard Rock Hollywood

Chef Rivero Boulder Station

Ma Rollet Rueda Boulder StationBrian Schweikert Rivers Casino

Mike Sexton Seminole Coconut Creek

Sally Vernon Midnight Rose Casino Hotel

Ryan Weatherman Hard Rock Tampa

Natalia Coada Harrah’s Cherokee

Barbara Jones Aria Las Vegas

Jaydon Ogden Aria Las Vegas

George “Dusty” Ohlman Traveling Dealer

FEEL THE BURNS! Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells dealer David Burns wins our Most Popular Dealer contest.

These four runners-up each will receive a pair of Blue Shark Optics

Other nominees

By Scott Long

David Burns is Ante Up’s Most Popular Deal-er. Burns, a dealer at Ho-Chunk Gaming

Wisconsin Dells, ran away from the field of 22 nominated dealers who competed in the on-line voting and wins an Ante Up Poker Cruise package for two for the Nov. 14 sailing out of Tampa, Fla.

“It’s still so surreal to me that I won. This is a wonderful promotion for poker dealers. I, for one, was proud to be nominated,” said Burns, who started as a blackjack dealer in 2000 and switched to poker in 2003. “Our small room has some of the best dealers in the country; we hear it time and time again at every big event we host. I will be taking my wife, Iris, on the cruise. We have never been on a cruise together, so this will definitely be an awesome experi-ence. I will be looking forward to getting out of the cold weather of Wisconsin for a week and seeing new places for the first time.”

Nominations were open dealers, as well as their friends, family and supervisors. The Ante Up staff whittled the nominees to the 22 who competed. Four runners-up, Jaydon Ogden, Nata-

lia Coada, George “Dusty” Ohlman and Barbara Jones, each won a pair of Blue Shark Optics.

Burns’ supervisor, Samantha Thomas, nomi-nated him.

“I was excited for Dave as the contest end was getting closer and closer,” Thomas said. “When I got the confirmation that he won, it made my day. Our room isn’t very big and when we have a bigger event, the staff gets spread pretty thin, but Dave will be one of the first to volunteer to help wherever he can. I appreciate the fact that he’s so helpful and dependable. As far as the players go, Dave is welcoming and has a great sense of humor.”

Burns credited an outpouring of support for getting the votes necessary to win.

“I had a lot of help getting votes from friends and family, especially from Chad Holloway, who did a lot of campaigning for me,” said Burns, who enjoys the interaction with his players the most about his job. “My Ho-Chunk family, as well as, pounding the campaign trail helped. I would not have won this without their support and am so grateful for them to go out of their way and make this possible for me.” S

MPDCONTEST

Photo

of D

avid

Burn

s cou

rtesy

of H

o-Ch

unk G

aming

COACH’S CORNER

I know a poker player and, by any measure, he’s a winning player. His numbers speak for themselves. We meet twice a

month and besides that he does not seem to spend a whole lot of time with poker study. He has great habits on and off

the table. When we analyze hands and review hands played, more often than not, he’s getting his money in good. So let’s explore hand analy-sis and discuss poker time off the table.

Reviewing hands played is tricky. In poker, we often come to an egregious conclusion that we “played it badly” after losing a big hand. We do this based on the result of the hand instead of breaking down the hand in a scientific man-

ner. Most often, it’s not the result of the hand in question, but whether we made a call that will earn us money in the long run and whether we charged our opponent the right price. Hind-sight in poker is a dangerous thing. Again, more often than not, we’ll come to the wrong conclusion and this can hurt us in the long run.

Keen hand analysis cannot be overlooked as an important component to your game. After losing a big pot or getting felted, we forget small but critical details about the hand in question. We focus on our last action instead of the whole story. Imagine that we three-barreled into an opponent who called and we

had to muck the hand as we were caught bluffing. “Horrible play,” I have heard players say of themselves for what seems in reflection to be a dumb play. We forget we have used this play for many years and it has made us money in the long run.

The player gets caught up in a “reality-fiction” that he played it wrong and the next thing you know, he has adjusted his game. He’s not as aggressive as he used to be. The result is his numbers suffer and, in review, it’s hard to know why. We must keep ourselves honest. This is easier said than done. Three ideas that will help you:

• Hire a coach, such as me, for a monthly review; this will pay off in spades. I offer a free consult via email.

• Keep accurate records and, for the aforementioned exam-ple, keep a bluffing column. You might not be so quick to get down on yourself; so stay focused on the big picture.

• Create a poker study group. I’ve led a poker think-tank for more than five years and I think I learned as much from the group as they learned from me.

The player I mentioned in Paragraph 1 doesn’t spend much time in poker study. Some players study for an hour or two daily. It’s not “one size fits all.” What’s important is the decision to be active in your pursuit of poker happiness.— Mark Brement has spent 15 years teaching and coaching all facets of poker, including at Pima CC. Email him at [email protected].

LEARN TO REVIEW YOUR POKER HANDS

MARK BREMENT

ST

RA

TE

GY

ADVANCEDPOKERTRAINING.COM

STEVE BLAY

ST

RA

TE

GY EXPLOITING YOUR OPPONENTS’ FAULTS

Some poker coaches say, “The secret to winning is to force opponents to make difficult decisions.” Making opponents

indifferent to calling or folding is rooted in mathematics and is theoretically correct against optimal opponents. But 99 percent

of people play downright poorly and we want to maximally exploit them.

Your favorite cardroom probably has a mix of decent players, weak-tight types, and overly aggressive maniacs. To beat these players for the maximum amount possible, you should at-tack their vulnerabilities. One training option is AdvancedPokerTraining.com, where you compete against 100-plus cash-game opponents and as

many as 8,000 opponents in multitable tournaments. These virtual opponents make the same mistakes as typical human opponents, which is critical for training.

So what’s wrong with forcing opponents to make difficult de-cisions? Difficult decisions are borderline decisions. If you’re playing against typical (read: bad) opponents, you don’t want to put them in borderline situations. You want to instead give them a rope and the chance to hang themselves.

Let’s take an example hand. You have an overpair on the turn, and there’s $100 in the pot. Your opponent, who calls too much, accidentally flashes his cards and you see he’s on a flush draw. Say you bet about $33, which gives him 4-to-1 on the

call, making him roughly indifferent to calling or folding. He has no implied odds because you’ve seen his cards and you’ll check-fold the river if he makes his flush. Yes, you’ve given him a difficult decision, but he also can’t go wrong either way. A better idea -- remember, this opponent calls too much -- would be to bet $50 or $75 or maybe even $100. Now you’ve given him the rope and he can make a costly mistake if he decides to draw to his flush.

So how can you get better at exploiting your generous op-ponents? AdvancedPokerTraining.com has a new Brain Button set of tools that works with your choice of 28 virtual advisors. You can see the thought-process behind their recommendations and a list of potential hands opponents might be holding, so you can think about different betting strategies against those hands. Since you can play hundreds of hands an hour without risking money, you can test-drive various betting strategies to see what works for you against opponents just like the ones you face in the cardrooms.

So, don’t try to force opponents to make difficult decisions. Here’s a better poker maxim: “The secret to winning poker is to find your opponent’s faults and to exploit those faults.” S

50

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

AL SPATH

WHAT IS IN YOUR POKER LIBRARY?The days of having Doyle Brunson’s Super System

and Lee Jones’ Low Limit Hold’em as the center-pieces of your poker library have shifted to new e-books dealing with the radical aggressive changes

in poker play since the explosion of the Moneymaker Effect, bringing tons of new players to the tables.

Once a year for new players, I like to offer my suggestions from the host of new books hitting the market and those still relevant. I recommend you purchase these for

your library or at least borrow them from a friend … and forget to return them.

No-limit hold’em remains the dominant form of poker played around the country and though many players love tournaments, the cash-game grinders want books that can allow them to sit shorter pe-riods of time and play against players who don’t possess the necessary skills to compete at the tables.

For those players, these are the best books to buy: Winning No-Limit Hold’em by Ashley Adams; Excelling at No-Limit Hold’em and Strategies for Beating Small Stakes Cash Games, both by Jonathan Little; The Course:

Serious Hold’em Strategy for Smart Players and Small Stakes Hold’em, both by Ed Miller; How to Beat Small Poker Games and Your Worst Poker Enemy, both by Alan Schoonmaker, and the Poker Mindset by Mathew Hilger.

When I look at reviews I’ve provided on tourna-ment books, Winning Poker Tournaments, One Hand at a Time still stands out, offering four opinions from pros (Hilger, Eric “Rizen” Lynch, John “ApeStyles” Van Fleet and Jon “PearlJammer” Turner). It’s clear and concise, with table illustrations and explanations for the questions they anticipated players might ask. Also, Little’s series, Secrets of Professional Poker Tournaments may be of great help to those on the tournament circuit.

There are many books available and everyone has a preference, however, it’s up to the player to seek out opinions and reviews to help select what’s best for them. — Al Spath is the former Dean at Poker School Online and continues to teach live and online. His free YouTube Chan-nel (Al Spath) has 200-plus instructional videos. Al’s live broadcasts are on TwitchTV: follow (PositivePokerInsiders). Contact Al at [email protected] with questions coach-ing inquires.

POKER INSIDERS

TR

AT

EG

Y

52

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

[email protected]

TURNING PRO

BE AWARE OF THOSE EMOTIONAL TRAPS

BRENT PHILBIN

The most difficult part about being a pro poker player is keeping yourself emotionally detached from your results

and the interactions you have with others at the table. There are losing and break-even players who

could become pros overnight if there were an easy way to fix this.

Unfortunately, there’s no magic pill to shut off your emotions; it takes dedication and maybe some trickery. Here are some traps that come up from time to time that elicit an emo-tional response.

ALTERING YOUR SCHEDULE BECAUSE OF RESULTS: This trap is vicious and it’s responsible for the disappearing so-cial lives of players of all ages. It’s extremely important to have a life outside of the poker room.

When you’re winning, you’re more likely to want to play more hours, possibly avoiding social interactions or other re-sponsibilities.

When you’re losing, you’ll want to avoid doing anything be-cause you’re depressed from losing. Leave work at the office and never let the felt interfere with personal life.

All of that being said, it can be helpful to take unscheduled time off from poker after prolonged losing.

TARGETING A SPECIFIC PLAYER FOR THE WRONG REASONS: You should

absolutely be targeting a fish when he’s at the table spewing chips.

You don’t need to target a competent player because you don’t like that they’re wearing a hoodie and sunglasses.

Don’t target a player because they made a loose call and got there. Any time you single out a player at the game for anything other than being a poor player, you’ll put yourself in a bad position.

Play great poker and just ignore the player who collects all of the small chips in the tournament and refuses to put them in the pot or make change.

GETTING EVEN: There’s no such thing as getting even for a ses-sion. Just stop thinking that right now and never think it again. After every hand you play, you’re even with the bankroll you have.

Playing stuck can lead to, aside from strictly bad play, taking a high variance line even when you aren’t conscious about do-ing it. Now, all of a sudden you’ve compounded the problem. You have solid records from 100s of hours saying you’re a win-ning player, so sometimes you’re going to be stuck. Ignore it.

Getting control of emotions is probably the most important thing a pro needs to learn early on in his or her career. — Brent Philbin is a poker pro who lives in South Florida. You can reach him at [email protected].

Confirmation bias, as the term is typically used in the psy-chological literature, connotes the seeking or interpreting

of evidence in ways that are partial to existing beliefs, expecta-tions or a hypothesis in hand.

In other words, confirmation bias is inter-preting information to match already held be-liefs to prove one’s bias.

Someone may think an older, well-dressed player has deep pockets and generally is passive and tight. A young guy with a backpack sits and one assumes he’ll be wildly aggressive.

This may be automatic or subconsciously done. You build your case on loosely associated information you make to fit your bias and you confirm your bias. You make it true and you act on it. This is not the same as stereotyping.

So, why is this a problem? Your decisions may be based on self-fulling information that supports your bias and it may not be true. That young, backpacked maniac may be a true math wiz making excellent decisions. The older man may be a weak, weekend warrior who just wants to have fun and is willing to gamble at every turn.

You need to know your bias, fight it and use actual patterns. But it’s inevitable that when you sit at a table you’ll scan the

players and form opinions. This should be your working hy-pothesis not your bias. Work to disprove your initial opinion; don’t fit the facts to prove it.

A person’s comfort level at the table should signal someone who has been around. Watch the way people handle cards and chips. It’s unusual for players to comfortably move their cards and chips around without plenty of experience.

Another surefire sign is the way they first sit down; everything from the way they stack their chips to their overall comfort level will give you some clues to the player’s experience. People who sit in what you consider a bad seat and ask for a seat-change button obviously have been watching the game and know what they’re doing.

Players who inquire if the game is a must-move or ask the floor to put them on another list are probably experienced. People who know the waitresses and dealers or who are called by a nickname usually means a regular.

So with nothing else to go on, make sure you pay attention to the little things a new player does and you may be able to develop a working hypothesis that you then observe and even try to disprove. Keep your head in the game. — Dr. Stephen Bloomfield is a licensed psychologist and avid poker player. Email him at [email protected].

STEPHEN BLOOMFIELD

POKER PSYCHOLOGY: HEAD GAMES

DON’T LET CONFIRMATION BIAS AFFECT YOUR PLAY

54

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

ST

RA

TE

GY

Cash games • Tournaments • ClassesTampa to Mexico • November • Call for rates

Tampa to Mexico • March 2017 • $599 Tampa to Barcelona • April 2017 • $845

Port Canaveral to Bahamas • June 2017 • $584

AnteUpCruises.ComJeanne Cosenza • 727-742-3843

Prices based on double-occupancy

Relax ... Play poker ... Repeat.

LOCATION TOURNAMENTS/SPECIAL EVENTS JACKPOTS/PROMOTIONS

ARIZONA

Mon.-Fri. ($125, 11:15a); Mon.-Thurs. ($145, 7:15p); Fri. ($200, 7:15p). See ad on Page 19.

Super bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; High Hand Wheel Spins; Splash Pots; Hot Sizzlin’ Seats.

Mon.-Fri. ($125, 11:15a); Mon.-Thurs. ($145, 7:15p); Fri. ($200, 7:15p). Super bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; High Hand Wheel Spins; Splash Pots; Hot Sizzlin’ Seats.

Mon. & Thurs. Poker Cup of Coffee Tournament w/$500 added ($35, 9:30a); Tue. & Wed. Poker Sundown Showdown w/$500 added ($35, 7p).

Players receive 50 percent food discount tableside.

Mon.-Fri. ($30, noon); Mon., Tue. & Thurs. & Sun. ($5, 7p); Wed. ($10, 7p); Fri. ($60, 7p); Sat. ($5, noon & 4p) and ($50, 7p); Sun. ($10, noon).

High Hand (Sun.-Fri., 9a-10a & 10a-11a); Aces and Faces Cracked every hour (5p-1a).

Tue. HA ($40, 7:30p); Wed. crazy pineapple KO ($40, 7:30p); Sat. $500 guar. ($50, 12:30p); Sun. ($25, 12:30p).

High-hand contest w/bonus for first three hours of the day; Splash Pots; royals pay $50, steel wheels pay $50; Aces Cracked.

Wed. ($15 w/rebuys & add-on, 7p); Sat. ($20 w/rebuys & add-on, 11a); Sun. ($30, 11a).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is aces full of 10s beaten by quads; royals pay $200; Aces Cracked (daily); Super 77 bad-beat jackpot (quad 7s or better beaten).

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YBLUEWATER RESORT & CASINO(928) 669-7000 • bluewaterfun.comBUCKY’S CASINO(928) 708-6801 • buckyscasino.com CASINO ARIZONA AT TALKING STICK(480) 850-7777 • casinoaz.comCASINO DEL SOL(800) 344-9435 • casinodelsol.comCLIFF CASTLE CASINO HOTEL(928) 567-7999 • cliffcastlecasinohotel.comDESERT DIAMOND(520) 342-1810 • ddcaz.comFT. McDOWELL CASINO(480) 837-1424 • fortmcdowellcasino.comHARRAH’S PHOENIX AK-CHIN(480) 802-5000 • harrahsakchin.comHON-DAH(928) 369-0299 • hon-dah.comVEE QUIVA HOTEL & CASINO(520) 796-7777 • wingilariver.com/vee-quivaWILD HORSE PASS HOTEL AND CASINO(800) 946-4452 • wingilariver.com/wild-horse-pass

Mon. ($25 w/rebuy and add-on, 6p); Tue. ($15, 6p); Wed. ($40, 6p); Thurs. O/8 ($40, 6p); Fri. KO ($45, 6p); Sat. ($30, 4p); Sun. crazy pineapple ($30 w/rb & add-on, 4p).

$100 high hand (Fri. & Sat.); Odd & Even Hot Pairs (Sun.-Thurs., 7p); Hot Seat Drawings pay $50-$100. See ad Page 23.

Mon.-Fri. ($30, 10a); Wed. ($60, 7p); Sat. ($50, noon). Get paid for royal flushes (call for details).

Mon.-Thurs. (10a); Tue.-Thurs. (6p); Sat. (noon & 6p); call for details. Bad-beat jackpot (daily); Omaha high hands (Mon. & Wed.).

Tuesday KO ($35 w/$20 early-bird rebuy, 7p); Thursday KO ($40 w/$20 early-bird rebuy, 7p).

High hand pays $50 for straight flush and $50 for quads (Wed., 8p); Aces Cracked pays $40 (daily); royals pay $200 (daily).

ARKANSASOAKLAWN PARK RACING AND GAMING(501) 623-4411 • oaklawn.com

Tue. $1K guar. ($20 w/rebuys, 7p); Wed. Payday ($20, 2p); Thurs. Ladies Freeroll (7p); Fri. Bounty Hunter ($30, 2p); Sun. deepstack ($50, 2p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot; mini bad-beat jackpot; high hand (Tue., noon-6p); Omaha Spin (Fri., 7p); Splash the Pot (Wed., 6p-mid.).

Mon.-Thurs. ($30, noon); Tue.-Wed. ($50, 7:30p); Sun. ($30, 3:30p). See ad on facing page.

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, stud and Omaha; Faces Cracked (Sun.-Thurs.); Rolling Cash Fever; Royals Splash.

Wed. ($40 w/add-on, 7:15p); Sat. ($40 w/add-on, 11:15a); Sun. ($30 w/add-on, 11:15a); 1st Sat. $5K guar. ($110, 12:15p). See ad below.

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; high hand pays $100 every hour (4a-9a); get paid for quads, straight flushes and royals.

AGUA CALIENTE CASINO(888) 999-1995 • hotwatercasino.comARTICHOKE JOE’S(650) 589-3145 • artichokejoes.comAVIATOR CASINO(661) 721-7770 • theaviatorcasino.comBANKERS CASINO(831) 422-6666 • bankerscasino.netBARONA RESORT(619) 443-2300 • barona.com

Sun.-Fri. ($50 w/$20 rebuys, 11a); Sat. ($100 w/$50 rebuys, 11a); Tue. & Thurs. ($75 w/$25 rebuys, 6:30p); monthly freeroll on first Wed. of month.

Full House Rocks; Splash the Pot.

Mon. ($28, 11a); Tue. ($25, 11a); Wed. HA ($50, 6:45p); Thurs. ($48, 11a); Sun. ($49, 6:45p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em pays up to $100K; Aces Cracked; high hand; royals pay $500.

Wed. Mexican Poker ($30 w/$10 rebuys and add-on, 6p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Pay for Play, receive extra chips when buying in to cash games (Mon., Fri. & Sat., 5p-7p).

Fri. Omaha/8 ($40, 10a); Sat. ($60, 10a); Sun. ($60, 10a). No jackpots.

CALIFORNIA

Mon. ($65 w/$60 rebuy & add-on , 6p); Tue. ($45 w/$40 rebuy & add-on, 6p); Sat. ($55, 11a).

Aces Cracked.

CALIFORNIABAY 101 CASINO(408) 451-8888 • bay101.comBICYCLE CASINO(562) 806-4646 • thebike.comCACHE CREEK CASINO(530) 796-3118 • cachecreek.comCALIFORNIA GRAND CASINO(925) 685-8397 • calgrandcasino.com CAPITOL CASINO(916) 446-0700 • capitol-casino.com CASINO M8TRIX(408) 645-0083 • casinom8trix.com CHUKCHANSI GOLD RESORT & CASINO(866) 794-6946 • chukchansigold.comCHUMASH CASINO RESORT(805) 686-1968 • chumashcasino.comCLUB ONE CASINO(559) 497-3000 • clubonecasino.comCOLUSA CASINO(530) 458-8844 • colusacasino.com COMMERCE CASINO(323) 721-2100 • commercecasino.com DIAMOND JIM’S CASINO(661) 256-1400 • diamondjimscasino.netELK VALLEY CASINO(707) 464-1020 • elkvalleycasino.com FOLSOM LAKE BOWL SPORTS BAR & CASINO(916) 983-4411 • folsomlakebowl.com GARDENS CASINO(562) 860-5887 • thegardenscasino.com GOLDEN WEST CASINO(661) 324-6936 • goldenwestcasino.netGRATON RESORT & CASINO(707) 588-7100 • gratonresortcasino.comHARRAH’S RESORT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA(760) 751-3100 • harrahsrincon.comHOLLYWOOD PARK(310) 330-2800 • playhpc.comHUSTLER CASINO(310) 719-9800 • hustlercasinola.com

(Continued)

Wed. ($55 w/$50 rebuys, 6p); Fri. KO ($55, 6:30p); Sat. $500 added ($55 w/$50 rebuy, noon); Sun. KO ($135, noon).

$5K bad-beat jackpot; high hand (Mon.-Sun.); Aces Cracked (Mon.-Fri.); Splash the Pot (Mon.-Fri.)

Mon.-Thurs. ($125, 9:30a); Fri. ($180, 9:30a); Sat. ($230, 9a); Sun. ($180, 9a). No jackpots.

Nooners (M-F, noon); Quantum Reload (W, 5p & 6:30p), (F, 4p, 5:30p & 7p), (Sa, noon, 2p & 4p) & (Su, noon, 1:30p & 3p); Nooners Nites (M, 5p), (T., 5p & 6:30p) & (Th, 5p).

Omaha/8 (Mon., 2p); Mexican Poker (Thurs., 8p); Sunday Cash Drawings pay $10K.

Tue. & Thurs. ($160, 7p) w/$2.5K to first place (minimum 60 players). No jackpots.

Mon. & Tue. ($20). Aces Cracked.

Mon.-Fri. ($30, 10a); 1st Sat. ($100, 11a); 2nd Sat. ($220, 11a); 3rd & 4th Sat. $3K guar. ($60, 11a); Sun. $3K guar. ($60, 11a).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha.

M-F ($40, 10:15a); Mon. ($10 w/rbs, 7p); T ($60, 7p); Wed. ($50, 7p); Th. ($40, 7p); Fri. ($150, 7:15p); Sat. $6.5K guar. ($120, 1:15p); Sun. $3K guar. KO ($100, 1:15p).

Perfect 10s Bad Beat Jackpot in hold’em; Big O Bad Beat Jackpot; splash pots (daily).

Mon.-Sat. ($20-$40, 10:15a); Mon.-Fri. ($60-$70, 7:15p); Sat. O/8 ($20, 10:15a); Sun. $5K guar. ($75, 1:15p).

Royal Flush Progressive Jackpot.

Call for information. Call for information.

No tournaments. Bounty High Hand Bonus; Aces Cracked.

Mon. ($45, 6:15p); Wed. ($80, 6:15p); Fri. ($45, 10:15a); Sat. ($65, 12:15p); Sun. KO ($65, 2:15p).

Mega jackpot; Omaha jackpot.

Sat. & Sun. $1.5K guar. ($30, noon); Fri. & Sun. $1.5K guar. ($30, 8p); Sat. $2.5K guar. ($45, 8p).

Aces Cracked & high hands (24/7); Pay for Play ($5/hour, daily); monthly cash drawings.

Daily ($30-$150); Mon.-Fri. (1p & 6:45p); Sat. (10a & 1p); Sun. (2:15a & 1p); Gardens Classic, Sept. 16-Oct. 1.

Daily jackpots; Splash the Pot; Aces Cracked; High Hand Happy Hour.

Daily ($60); Mon.-Fri. (noon & 7p); Sat. (noon & 7p); Sat. Big O event ($60, 3p); 1st Sun. of month ($230, noon); Sunday Special $25K guar., Sept. 4 ($230, noon).

$100K Cash Drawings; Aces Cracked.

Sunday ($50, 10:30a) w/$500 added to the prize pool. Progressive bad-beat double jackpot starts at $140K; regular jackpots start at $70K; Sun. $1K High Hand Payouts; new player offers $50 in chips for $20 buy-in.

Mon.-Tue. ($150, 7p); Wed. ($185, 7p); Thurs. KO ($185, 7p); Fri. ($100 w/$70 add-on, 7p); Sun. ($250, 3p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Wed. ($35 w/$15 rebuy, 2K chips, 6:30p); Sat. $1K guar. (7p). Friday Night Special pays players $120 for a $100 buy-in from 6:30-7:30p.

Mon., Wed. & Fri. ($60, 10a); Mon. KO ($150, 6:30p); Tue. & Thurs. ($35, 10a); Sun. KO ($140, 10a); 3rd Sat. of month ($550).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot; high hands; Aces Cracked (Mon.-Fri.); Early Bird Special (Mon.-Fri.); Omaha Special (daily).

Mon. ($10 w/rbs, 6p); Tue. O/8 ($40, 6p); Wed. HE/CP ($30, 6p); Thurs. & Fri. ($30, 6p); Sat. KO ($35, 2p); Sun. (freeroll, 6p); 1st Sat. ($115, 4p); 1st Sun. (freeroll, 4p).

Player rewards.

Mon. ($45, 6:20p); Tue. ($55, 6:20p); Wed. ($40 or $90, 6:20p); Sat. ($65, 12:20p); Sun. ($85, 12:20p).

Morning Bonuses (Mon.-Fri.), players receive $30 for $15 from 8-8:30a; Full House Beat (Mon.-Fri.).

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

Y

* SNG = single-table tournaments; all tournaments are no-limit hold’em unless noted. Poker room managers email [email protected]

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

CONNECTICUTMon.-Thurs. ($80-$160, 10a); Fri. 10K guar. ($160, 6p); Sat. $25K guar. ($300, 11a).See the ad on Page 41.

Bad beat in hold’em is quad eights in hold’em and quad deuces in stud; High Hand Frenzy (Sun. & Tue., 9a-9p & Fri., 2p-2a) with $500 paid every 30 minutes.

Daily ($50-$150); Mon.-Thurs. (10a, 2p & 7p); Fri. (11a & 2p); Sat. (11a); Sun. (11a & 5p). See the ad on Pages 36-37.

High hands pay up to $600.

FOXWOODS RESORT CASINO(800) 369-9663 • foxwoods.comMOHEGAN SUN CASINO(860) 862-8000 • mohegansun.com

CALIFORNIA (Continued)

58 | S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

Mon.-Fri. ($45 w/$20 rebuys and add-on, 11a); Tue. & Sun. ($100, 7p); Sat. & Sun. ($100, 11a); Mon.-Thurs. ($45 w/$20 rebuys and add-on, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; royals bonus; Aces Cracked.

No tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; get paid for quads, straight flush and royals; Splash Pots.

Mon.-Thurs. & Sat. ($20 w/rebuys, 10a); Thurs. $2.5K guar. ($60, 6:40p); Fri. KO ($30 w/$10 bounties, 10a); Sun. $5K guar. ($60 w/$25 rebuys, 2p).

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em, Omaha and stud.

Mon.-Thurs. ($25, 10:20a); Mon. $2K guar. ($40, 7:20p); Thurs. $2.5K guar. ($45, 7:20p); Fri. KO ($30, 10:20a); Sat. $2K guar. ($40, 10:20a); Sun. $1K guar. FR (1p).

Super Bad Beat Jackpot in hold’em.

Mon., Wed. & Fri. ($65 w/$50 rebuy, 9:30a); Tue. & Thurs. ($200, 9:30a); Sat. ($45 w/$20 rebuys and add-on, 9:30a); Sun. ($250, 9:30a).

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em ($100K), Omaha and stud; Aces Cracked; Rack Attack; high hands.

Mon.- Fri. ($55, 10a); Tue. & Thurs. ($75, 6:30p); Sat. $10K guar. ($130, 11a); last Sun. $40K guar. ($350, 11a); Stones Fall Classic, Sept. 23-Oct. 3.

Rack Attacks (3p, 4p, 9p & mid.); Aces Cracked (noon-1p, 6p-7p, 1a-2a).

Fri. $3K guar. ($40, 7p); Sat. $2.5K guar. ($40, 5p); Sun. $1.5K guar. ($15 or $10 w/players card, 1p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud.

Mon. KO ($150, 6:15p); Wed. ($185, 6:15p); Sat. ($130, 11a); Sun. ($235, 1p); 1st Sat. of month ($340, 11a).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha/8 and stud.


Thurs. $1.2K guar. ($55, 7:15p); Fri. $2K guar. ($40, 7:15p). $100 Hourly High Hand (Mon. & Wed., 10a-7p); Flush Marathon; Cash Prize Wheel.

Mon. ($45, 10a & 7p); Tue. ($45, 10a); Wed. ($45, 10a); Thurs. $4K guar. ($50, 10a); Fri. $4K guar. ($50, 10a); Sat. $15K guar. ($100, 1p); Sun. $4.5K guar. ($50, 10a).

No-limit, limit and Omaha jackpots; high hands.

Monthly $24K tournament (qualify by playing live events); call for details. Double jackpots (Mon. & Wed., noon-mid.); high hand of the hour (Tue. & Thurs., noon-mid.); Money Wheel (Fri., noon-10p).

Mon. & Th. $1K guar. ($60, 6:15p); Tue. KO ($80, 6:15p); 1st & 3rd Wed. ($100, 6:15p); Tue., Th.-Sun. ($60, 10a); 2nd & 4th Sat. ($100, 10a); $1K min. guar. pool.

$10K bad-beat jackpot; Progressive Royal Jackpot; $100 high hands (Fri.-Sun.); $50 quads, $75 straight flush (Sun.-Thurs.); Aces Cracked.

Mon. ($55, 11a & $80, 7p); Tue. ($25, 11:45a & $70, 7p); Wed. ($130, 11:45a); Thurs. KO ($70, 7p); Sat. ($130, 11a); Sun. ($100, 11a & $55, 5p).

No jackpots.

Tue.-Fri. ($25 w/$20 rebuys and add-on, 10a); Sat. $3K guar. ($60 w/$10 add-on, 11a); Sun. ($20 $20 add-on, 11a).

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em and Omaha; high hand; Progressive Cash Squares; 50-50 Fridays.

Daily ($25 w/$20 rebuy and add-on, 10a). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

No tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hands.

COLORADONo tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; mini descending bad-beat jackpot.

Daily ($40, 10a); Mon.-Thurs. ($80, noon); Fri. & Sun. ($160, noon); Sat. ($210, noon); Mon.-Wed. ($60, 7p); Thurs. & Sun. ($100, 7p); Fri. & Sat. ($130, 7p).

High hands pay up to $300/hour with 7 cash games playing (Mon.-Sun., 10a-10p); Wheel of Winnings; HPT, Sept. 8-19.

Sunday $1K freeroll (3p) w/40 seats awarded per week. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Fri. ($60, 7p); Sat. ($60, 2p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

No tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

No tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hand (Sun., Tue. & Fri.); Bounce Back (Mon., Wed. & Thurs.).

AMERISTAR BLACK HAWK(720) 946-4108 • ameristar.com/Black_Hawk.aspxGOLDEN GATES CASINO(303) 582-5600 • goldencasinogroup.comISLE CASINO BLACK HAWK(303) 998-7777 • black-hawk.isleofcapricasinos.comLADY LUCK CASINO(303) 582-2141 • isleofcapricasinos.comLODGE CASINO AT BLACK HAWK(303) 582-1771 • thelodgecasino.comMIDNIGHT ROSE HOTEL & CASINO(719) 689-2446 • triplecrowncasinos.comRESERVE CASINO HOTEL(303) 582-0800 • reservecasinohotel.comSKY UTE CASINO RESORT(970) 563-7777 • skyutecasino.com

Mon. ($40, 7p); Thurs. ($50, 7p); Sat. ($120, noon); 1st Sat. of month ($210, noon); ask about re-entries and rebuys.

Player comps pay $1/hour.

Fri. ($100, 4p); 2nd & 4th Sat. ($40, 12:30p); 2nd & 4th Sun. ($110, 2p). Bad-beat jackpot is aces full of queens; mini bad-beat jackpot is aces full of tens; Ultimate High Hand Weekends (3rd weekend of every month).

Mon. $1K Madness ($20, 5p); Tue. $2K deepstack ($75, 5p); Wed. $1K Stack Attack ($20, 5p); Sun. $1K guar. Deep Stack ($55, 4p).

Aces Cracked; Progressive Straight Flushes.

Wednesday PLO ($20, 11:30a). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Aces Cracked; high hand.

No tournaments. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (aces full) and Omaha (quad eights); double jackpots; Splash Pots (call for details).

Tue. ($20, 11a); Wed. ($25, 6p); Thurs. ($40, 6p); Fri. freeroll (6p); Sat. ($25, 11a); Sun. freeroll (noon); first Sat. of month ($120, 3p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; progressive royal-flush jackpot.

No tournaments. $5K Mini Bad Beat Jackpot.

Mon. KO ($60, 7p); Tue. Omaha/8 ($40, 11a); Wed. ($30, 11a); Th. Crazy Pine. ($30, 11a); Fri. $2K guar. ($60, 11a); Sat. KO ($60, 11a); 2nd Sun. $5K guar. ($220, 1p).

$50K bad-beat jackpot.

Mon. KO ($60, 7:15p); Tue. ($50, 7:15p); Wed. KO ($60, 7:15p); Fri. ($50, 11:15a); Sat. KO ($60, 11:15a). See ad on Page 50.

Aces Cracked; Kings Cracked; Double High Hands.

JACKSON RANCHERIA CASINO RESORT(209) 223-1677 • jacksoncasino.com LAKE ELSINORE CASINO(951) 674-3101 • lercasino.comLIMELIGHT CASINO(916) 446-2208 • limelightcardroom.com LIVERMORE CASINO(925) 447-1702 • livermorecasino.netLUCKY CHANCES CASINO(650) 758-2237 • luckychances.comLUCKY LADY CASINO(619) 287-6690 • luckyladycardroom.com MORONGO CASINO(888) 667-6646 • morongocasinoresort.comNORMANDIE CASINO(310) 352-3400 • normandiecasino.comOAKS CARD CLUB(510) 653-4456 • oakscardclub.comOCEANA CASINO(805) 270-3397 • oceanacardroom.com OCEAN’S 11 CASINO(760) 439-6988 • oceans11.comPALA CASINO(760) 510-5100 • palacasino.comPARK WEST CASINO CORDOVA(916) 296-7477 • cordovacasino.com PARK WEST CASINO LODI(209) 334-9777 • thelodicasino.com PARK WEST CASINO SONOMA(707) 795-6121 • the101casino.com/casinoPASO ROBLES CENTRAL COAST CASINO(805) 226-0500 • pasoroblescasino.comPECHANGA RESORT(951) 693-1819 • pechanga.comPLAYERS CASINO VENTURA(805) 643-1392 • pcventura.com RANCHO’S CLUB(916) 361-9186 • ranchosclub.com RED HAWK CASINO(530) 677-2580 • redhawkcasino.com SAN MANUEL CASINO(800) 359-2464 • sanmanuel.com STONES GAMBLING HALL(916) 735-8440 • stonesgamblinghall.com SYCUAN CASINO(619) 445-6002 • sycuan.comTACHI PALACE CASINO(559) 924-7751 • tachipalace.comTHUNDER VALLEY CASINO RESORT(916) 408-7777 • thundervalleyresort.comTURLOCK POKER ROOM(209) 668-1010 • turlockpoker.com WIN-RIVER RESORT & CASINO(530) 243-3377 • winrivercasino.com

Daily ($15, 9a); Mon. ($25, 6p); Tue. KO ($25, 6p) Wed. ($25, 6p); Thurs. KO ($25, 6p); Fri. satellite ($70, 6p); Sat. ($25, 6p); Sun. Omaha ($45, 11:00a).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Mexican Poker $100 High Hand (Thurs.-Sun., mid.); royal flush progressive; Omaha high hand (Wed. & Sat.).

M-Th ($40, 11a); M ($20 w/$10 rbs, 7p); W O/8 ($60, 7p); F-Su $2.5K guar. ($40 w/$20 rbs & add-on, 11a); F ($125, 5p); Sa Survivor ($100, 7p); Su KO ($100, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; high hands. See ad Pages 12-15.

M-Su. ($25 w/rbs, 10a); M-W ($50, 6:30p); Th. ($70 w/$50 rbs, 6:30p); F ($46 w/$10 bounties, 6:30p); Sa. ($46 w/$10 bounties, 6p); Su. ($70 w/$50 rbs, 6p).

Progressive jackpots in hold’em and Omaha jackpot.


WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

59

@anteupm


| SEPTEMBER 2016 |

Tue. & Thurs. ($60, 11a); Wed. Omaha NL ($60, 11a); Sat. ($60 w/rebuy and add-on, 11a); Sun. KO ($60, 1p).

High hands (M & F, 11a-4p), (T & W, 8p-mid.) & (Su, 11a-1p & 9p-11p); Aces Cracked pays $50 (Su- F, 4:30p-7:30p); quad jacks or better pays $100 (T & Th, 11:30a-4:30p)

FLORIDA

Tue. ($50, 7p); Sun. ($50, noon). Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em (uncapped); Mystery High Hand Mon. ($200-$1K); Thurs. $400 high hands (every 30 min., noon-mid.).

Daily $40-$150 (noon & 7p); World Poker Tour, Sept. 30-Oct. 18 w/$1M guar. main event. See ad Page 25.

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em (uncapped); $500 high hand every 15 min. (select days/hours).

BESTBET JACKSONVILLE(904) 646-0002 • bestbetjax.comBESTBET ORANGE PARK(904) 646-0002 • bestbetjax.comCASINO AT DANIA BEACH(954) 920-1511 • casinodaniabeach.comCREEK ENTERTAINMENT GRETNA (850) 875-6930 • creekentertainment.com DAYTONA BEACH KENNEL CLUB(386) 252-6484 • daytonagreyhound.com/pokerroomDERBY LANE(727) 812-3339 x7 • derbylanepoker.comEBRO GREYHOUND PARK(850) 234-3943 • goebro.comFT. PIERCE JAI-ALAI & POKER(772) 464-7500 • jaialai.net/poker.phpGULFSTREAM PARK(954) 457-6336 • gulfstreampark.comHIALEAH PARK CASINO(305) 885-8000 • hialeahparkcasino.comISLE CASINO AT POMPANO PARK(954) 972-2000 x5123 • theislepompanopark.comMAGIC CITY CASINO(305) 649-3000 • flaglerdogs.com MARDI GRAS CASINO(877) 557-5687 x3167 • playmardigras.com MELBOURNE GREYHOUND PARK(321) 259-9800 • mgpark.com MICCOSUKEE RESORT & GAMING (877) 242-6464 • miccosukee.comNAPLES-FT. MYERS GREYHOUND TRACK (239) 992-2411 • naplesfortmyersdogs.comOCALA POKER AND JAI-ALAI(352) 591-2345 • ocalapoker.comOXFORD DOWNS(352) 347-2273 • betoxford.com

Mon. ($60, 1p & 7p); Tue. ($60, 1p & 7p); Wed. turbo ($70, 7p); Thurs. ($60, 1p & 7p); Fri. PLO ($70, 11a) & ($60, 7p); Sun. ($75, 1p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; royals pay $500; high hands; Spin the Wheel for $599 (Mon.). See ad below.

Daily (7p); Mon., Wed. & Thurs. $1.5K guar.; Tue. shootout $1.5K guar.; Fri. & Sun. shootout 2.5K guar.; Sat. $2.5K guar.; Sun. freeroll (1p).

High-hand jackpot (daily).

Mon. ($80, 11a & $20, 7p); Wed. (freeroll, 10a & $100, 7p); Thurs. ($20, 11a & $160, 7p); Fri. ($130, 7p); Sat. ($100, 11a & $75, 7p); Sun. ($70, 11a).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; high hands; player rewards (call for details). See ad on Page 47.

Mon. $1.5K guar. ($80, 8p); Thurs. $1K guar. ($50, 2p). Big Slick Red Royal $20K+$500 to each player at the table; high hands (daily); weekly draw down (Mon.-Fri.).

Variety of live play including hold’em, stud, Omaha and Crazy Pineapple. High-hand jackpot, call for details.

Wed. $2.5K guar. (7p); Fri. & Sat. $2K guar. ($60, 7p).

Full House Promo (Tue. & Thurs., 7p-mid. & daily at 9a); earn cash toward free play up to $3/hour (Mon.-Thurs.). See ad on Page 61.

M ($50, 3p); T ($50, 3p); W ($31, 1p, $60, 3p, $120, 7p); Th (varies); Fri. ($135, 7p); Sat. ($50, 10a, & $125, 7p); 1st Sun. $10K guar. ($80); last Sun. $15K guar. ($200).

Super Saturday (noon-mid.); Power Hour (daily, 11a-10p & Fri., noon-mid.); high hands; HPT, Sept. 15-26. See ad on Page 49.

Daily ($20-$340) at 9a, 1p & 6p. See ad on Page 29. Player Rewards Program; Morning Madness (daily).

Tue.-Sat. ($30-$110, 6:30p); Sun. ($200 or $330, 2p). High hands pay $100 (Fri. at 9a to Sat. at noon) & (Sun., mid.-noon); spade royals pay $1K (daily).

Mon. ($65, 6p); Wed. ($65, 6p); Fri. ($35, 7p); Sat. ($110-$130, 3p); Sun. ($50, 4p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em pays minimum of $85K.

Daily (7p); M $1.5K guar. ($70); T $1.5K guar. ($90); W $1.5K guar. PLO ($30 w/$10 rbs); Th $3K guar. ($110); F $2.5K guar. ($70); Sat. ($50 w/$10 rbs); Sun. ($70).

High hands pay $500/half hour (Thurs.-Sat., 1p-mid.); royals pay $1K. See ad on Page 33.

Mon. ($55, 1p & $70, 7p); Tue. ($70, 1p & 7p); Thurs. ($70, 1p & $55, 7p); Fri. ($125, 6p); Sat. ($125, 1p); Sun. ($125, 1p) & O/8 ($70, 6p); 1st & 3rd Sat. ($285, noon).

Big Slick Royal pays min of $10K; other royals pay $500; $500 high hand every half-hour (Sat., 6p-1:30a); 1st & 3rd Wed. high hand pays up to $2k per hour (9:45a-1a).

Tue. & Thurs. freeroll (7p); Sat. Crazy Pineapple freeroll (2p); Sun. freeroll (2p). High hand (Fri.-Sat.); Splash the Pot (Mon. & Wed.).

Mon. ($45, 7p); Tue. ($35, 7p); Wed. ($55, 7p); Thurs. Omaha ($55, 7p); Fri. ($80, 7p); Sat. ($55, 5p); Sun. ($55, 4p).

High hand (Wed. & Fri.); quads and straight flush (Mon.).

Mon. $5K guar. ($75, 7p); Wed. $10K guar. ($100, 6p); Sat.$5K guar. Green-chip bounty ($100, 7p).

High hands.

Sunday ($50, 1p); Wednesday ($85, 7p). See ad on Page 27. High hand (daily); bad-beat jackpot starts at $20K; get paid for royals.

DELAWAREDaily ($45-$100); Mon.-Wed (noon & 7p); Thurs. (noon & 7p); Fri. (noon, 7p & 10p); Sat. (9a, noon, 7p & 10p); Sun. (9a, noon, 3p & 7p).

Hourly high hands.

Mon.-Fri. ($35, 11:15a); Tue.-Thurs. ($35, 7:15p); Fri. ($45, 7:15p); Sat. ($45, 11:15a) & ($35, 7:15p); Sun. ($35, 6:15p); DPC runs until Sept. 5. See ad on Page 40.

Royal flush bonus; bad beat hands pays $300-$600.

DELAWARE PARK(302) 355-1050 • delawarepark.comDOVER DOWNS HOTEL & CASINO(302) 674-4600 • doverdowns.com HARRINGTON RACEWAY(888) 887-5687 • harringtonraceway.com

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

Y

60

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

CA

RD

RO

OM

S

KANSASBOOT HILL CASINO(877) 906-0777 • boothillcasino.com

No tournaments. Hold’em and Omaha/8 games spread on live tables.

Tue. ($100, 7:00p); Wed. ($45, noon); Fri. ($45, noon); Sun. ($85, 2p). Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Mon. ($65, 11:15a); Tue. ($65, 7:15p); Thurs. ($65, 11:15a) & KO ($85, 7:15p); Sun. ($125, 11:15a); last Sun. of month ($235, 11:15a).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; $100 hourly high hands (daily).HOLLYWOOD CASINO(913) 288-9300 • hollywoodcasinokansas.com KANSAS STAR CASINO(316) 719-5000 • kansasstarcasino.com PRAIRIE BAND CASINO(785) 966-7777 • pbpgaming.com

FLORIDA (Continued)

Daily at 1p & 6:30p ($40-$120). Sun. ($120, 1p & $60, 5p). Quads, straight flushes and royals all pay bonuses.

Mon., Fri. & Sat. ($80); Wed. ($30); last Sat. of month $4K guar. ($130). Hourly high hands can pay $100/hour; get paid for royals.

M ($130, 6p); T ($60, noon & $80, 6p); W O/8 ($110, noon) & ($130, 6p); Th ($60, noon & $100, 6p); F ($80, noon) & HA ($100, 6p); Sa ($100, 6p); Su ($80, noon & 6p).

High hands (daily); Coco Poker Open, Sept. 21-Oct. 2.

Mon.-Fri. ($100-$300, 11a & 6p); Sat. ($100-$200, 11a & 4p); Sun. (buy-ins vary, 11a & 6p).

High hands.

M ($70, 11a & $150, 7p); T ($70, 11a & $125, 7p); W ($150, 11a & $230, 6p); Th ($110, 11a & $230, 6p); F ($125, 11a & $230, 6p); Sa ($150, 11a); Su ($110, noon).

High hands (Mon.-Thurs.); Hot Seats (Fri.-Sun.); Labor Day deepstack, Sept. 5 ($350); Fall Little Slick Series, Sept. 12-18.

Tue.-Thurs. ($60, 7p); Sat. ($115, 7p); Sun. Green Chip Bounty ($140, 4p); WPT DeepStacks, Sept. 2-11 w/$200K guar. main event. See ad on Page 28.

$50 Splash Pots every day, every hour, every table from open-8p; high hands pay $100 every hour from 8p-close.

Daily ($25-$210) at 1p and 7p with guaranteed prize pools; Tampa Bay Downs Fall Classic, Sept. 14-18. See ad on Page 31.

High hands.

PALM BEACH KENNEL CLUB(561) 683-2222 • pbkennelclub.comPENSACOLA GREYHOUND TRACK(850) 455-8595 • pensacolagreyhoundtrack.com SARASOTA KENNEL CLUB(941) 355-7744 x1054 • skcpoker.comSEMINOLE CASINO BRIGHTON(866) 222-7466 x121 • seminolecasinobrighton.comSEMINOLE CASINO COCONUT CREEK(866) 222-7466 • seminolecoconutcreekcasino.comSEMINOLE HARD ROCK HOLLYWOOD(866) 502-7529 • seminolehardrockhollywood.comSEMINOLE HARD ROCK TAMPA(866) 502-7529 • seminolehardrocktampa.comSEMINOLE CASINO IMMOKALEE(866) 222-7466 • theseminolecasino.comTAMPA BAY DOWNS(813) 298-1798 • tampabaydowns.comTGT POKER & RACEBOOK(813) 932-4313 • tgtpoker.com

Mon. ($50, 7p); Tue. ($50, 7p); Wed. ($40, 7p); Thurs. ($50, 7p); Fri. ($55, 7:30p); Sat. ($55, 7:30p); Sun. ($35, 7p).

High hands; late night promos (daily).

IOWATue. ($40, 7p); Thurs. ($60, 7p); Fri. turbo ($25, 2p); Sat. ($40, 2p); Sun. ($60, 2p); last Sat. of the month ($150, 2p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Aces Cracked (Mon.-Wed.); straight flush jackpot.

Mon. Omaha/8 ($40, 6p); Wed. ($40, 1p); Thurs. ($40, 6p); Sat. ($60, noon); Sun. ($100, 1p).

High Hands.

Mon., Wed. ($65, 10a); Tue. ($65, 7p); Thurs. KO ($100, 7p); Sat. ($150/$250, 10a); Sun. ($50, 10a & 2p); PPC, Sept. 21-25.

High hand jackpots; get paid for royal flushes ($500) and straight flushes ($200); win $500 for a steel wheel in Omaha/8; Aces Cracked.

DIAMOND JO CASINO NORTHWOOD(641) 323-7777 • diamondjo.comGRAND FALLS CASINO(712) 777-7777 • grandfallscasinoresort.comHORSESHOE COUNCIL BLUFFS(877) 771-7463 • horseshoecouncilbluffs.comMESKWAKI CASINO(641) 484-2108 • meskwaki.comMYSTIQUE GREYHOUND PARK(563) 585-2964 • mystiquedbq.comPRAIRIE MEADOWS CASINO(515) 967-8543 • prairiemeadows.comRHYTHM CITY CASINO(563) 328-8000 • rhythmcitycasino.com RIVERSIDE CASINO(319) 648-1234 • riversidecasinoandresort.comWINNAVEGAS(712) 428-9466 • winnavegas.biz

Tue. ($20 w/rebuys, 7p); Wed. Omaha ($20, 7p); Thurs. ($30 w/re-entry, 7p); Sat. & Sun. ($30, 1p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Thursday ($55, 6p); Friday ($40, 3p); Sunday ($80, 1p). Straight and royal flush progressive jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; 10 jackpots; call for details.

Mon. Omaha/8 ($30, 11a); Tue. ($25, 7p); Thurs. ($30, 6p); Fri. Big O ($30, 11a); Sat. ($30, 1p); Sun. ($50, 2p); last Sat. ($100, 1p); WPT DeepStacks, Sept. 23-Oct. 3.

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (aces full of kings) and Omaha (quad 10s).

Tue. ($30, noon); Wed. ($30, 7p); Sun. ($60, noon). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; straight flush pays $200.

Tue. & Wed. $500 guar.; Fri. ($25, 7p). Tournament bad-beat jackpot.


Wednesday ($120 w/rebuys, 8K chips, 1p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em. Qualify all month for Ante Up Poker Cruise freerolls (Sept. 4, Oct. 2).

ILLINOIS

Tue. (varies, 7p); Thurs. $2.5K guar. ($125, 7p); Sat. KO ($100-$150, 2p). Spin the Wheel (Mon., Wed. & Fri.).

No tournaments. Power Points and cash back for live play; call for details.

Sunday ($125, 11a). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Mon. ($40, 7p); Tue. turbo ($40, 7p); Wed. ($40, 7p); Sun. ($100, 1p). Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Tournaments offered at 2p, 4:30p, 6:30p & 8p. $2-$5 NLHE cash-game action with $200-$600 or table captain max.

GRAND VICTORIA ELGIN (847) 531-7753 • grandvictoria-elgin.com HARRAH’S JOLIET (815) 740-7480 • harrahsjoliet.com HOLLYWOOD CASINO AURORA (630) 801-7471 • hollywoodcasinoaurora.comHOLLYWOOD CASINO JOLIET (815) 927-2175 • hollywoodcasinojoliet.com JUMER’S CASINO & HOTEL(309) 756-4600 • jumerscri.comPAR-A-DICE HOTEL CASINO(309) 698-6693 • paradicecasino.comROCKFORD CHARITABLE GAMES(800) 965-7852 • rcgpoker.com

Mon. ($125, 6:15p); Tue. ($40 w/rebuys, 6:15p); Wed. ($60, 6:15p); Thurs. ($40 w/rebuys, 6:15p); Sat. & Sun. ($80, 12:15p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot; mini bad-beat jackpot.

INDIANA

Fri. & Sat. $5K guar. KO (7:15p); last Sat. $10K guar. ($150, 4:15p). Bad-beat jackpot; Full House Frenzy.


Thurs. ($40, 12:15p) & ($65, 7:15p); Fri. ($65, 12:15p & 7:15p) & ($40, mid.); Sat. ($40, 11:15a) & ($65, 7:15p); Sun. ($40, 11:15a) & ($65, 5:15p).

Splash the Pot (Thurs., Fri. & Sat.).

Tue. ($80, 7p); Thurs. ($60, 7p); Fri. ($130, 7p); Sat. ($60, 1p); Sun. ($60, 7p); 2nd Sat. of month $10K guar. ($225, 5p); last Sun. seniors $4K guar. ($125, noon).

$100 hourly drawings (Thurs., 5p-1a); $1K Hot Seat (Wed.).

BELTERRA CASINO RESORT(812) 427-7777 • belterracasino.com BLUE CHIP(219) 861-4820 • bluechipcasino.com HOLLYWOOD CASINO LAWRENCEBURG(812) 539-8000 • www.hollywoodindiana.comHORSESHOE HAMMOND(219) 473-6065 • horseshoehammond.comHORSESHOE SOUTHERN INDIANA(812) 969-6000 • horseshoe-indiana.comMAJESTIC STAR II(219) 977-7777 x7444 • majesticstarcasino.comTROPICANA EVANSVILLE(812) 433-4000 • tropevansville.com

Wednesday ($50, noon). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Mon. ($51, noon); Tue. ($50, noon & $80, 7p); Wed. ($61, noon & $80, 7p); Thurs. ($50, noon); Fri. ($60, mid.); Sat. ($80, noon); Sun. ($81, 3p).

Bad-beat jackpots in no-limit and limit hold’em; tournament bad-beat jackpot.

Call for info.

High hands.


M ($70, 12:15 & 6:30p); T & Th ($100, 12:15 & 6:30p); W ($100, 12:15 & 6:15p); F ($120, 12:15) & ($30 w/rbs, 6:30); Sa ($120, 12:15) & ($5 w/rbs, 6:30); Su ($100, 12:15).

Progressive Bad-Beat Jackpot; high hands (daily). See ad on Page 53.

Sun.-Mon. ($60, 7p); Wed. ($120, 7p); T & Th $10K sat. ($60, 7p) & Sun. ($60, 1p); Fri. $2K guar. ($60, 7p); Sat. $2K guar. ($60, 7p); 2nd Sat. $10K guar. ($270, 1p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (quads); Full House promotion (Tue., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.). See ad on facing page.

Mon. ($30, 6p, 8K chips); Wed. ($40, 6p, 8K chips); Last Sunday ($100, 1p, 12 chips). Call for information.

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

62

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

MICHIGANMon.-Fri. ($40, noon); Mon.-Wed. ($40, 6:30p); Thurs. PLO ($40, 6:30p); Fri. ($40, noon); Sat. ($80, noon); 1st and 3rd Sun. ($120, noon); 2nd & 4th Sun. ($240, noon).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em. See ad on Page 44.FIREKEEPERS CASINO(269) 962-0000 • firekeeperscasino.comGREEKTOWN HOTEL & CASINO(313) 223-2999 • greektowncasino.comMGM GRAND DETROIT(313) 465-1777 • mgmgranddetroit.com SOARING EAGLE CASINO(989) 775-7777 • soaringeaglecasino.comTURTLE CREEK CASINO & HOTEL(231) 534-8937 • turtlecreekcasino.com

Mon. ($40, noon); Wed. ($50, 7:30p); Thurs. ($60, 7:30p); Sat. ($30, 11:30a); Sun. ($40, 11:30a).



Mon. ($40, 7p); Tue. KO ($60, 7p); Wed. ($40, 7p); Sun. ($100, 2p); first Sat. of month ($175, 1p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Mon. ($60, 6:30p); Tue. ($13, 6:30p); Wed. ($60, 6:30p); Thurs. ($60, 6:30p); Sun. ($60, 12:30p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; Soaring Hand jackpots increase daily.

M ($50, 10:30a & $120, 6:30p); T ($50/$65, 6:30p); W ($50, 10:30a & $235, 6:30p); Th ($35, 10:30a & $50, 5p); F ($50, 10:30a); Sa (10:30a) .

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; high hand; Aces Cracked. See ad on Page 43 for October’s Fall Poker Classic.

Daily (times and buy-ins vary, call the poker room for schedule). Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em, Omaha and stud; high hand; Aces Cracked; Bounty Bonus Boards; Splash Pots; MSPT, Sept. 10-18.

MINNESOTACANTERBURY PARK(952) 445-7223 • canterburypark.comRUNNING ACES CASINO AND RACETRACK(651) 925-4600 • runningacesharness.comTREASURE ISLAND RESORT & CASINO(651) 388-6300 • treasureislandcasino.com

Thurs. ($100, 6:30p); Fri. ($50, 6:30p); Sat. ($60, 12:30p); Sun. ($40, 2:30p). Aces Cracked Doubled wins up to $300 (Thurs., noon-10p); quads pay $44; straight flushes pay $50; royal flushes pay $100.

MARYLAND

LOUISIANA

Wed. ($145, 6:30p); Thurs. ($165, 6:30p); Fri. ($130, 6:30p); Sat. ($120, 11a); Sun. ($145, noon).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; royal flush pays $500; straight flush pays $100; Aces Cracked.

Tue. ($10, 11a); Wed.-Thurs. ($35, 7p). Aces Cracked (Sun., Tue., & Thurs.); Splash the Pot (Mon.); high hand (Wed.).

Daily, including Saturday ($200, 2p). See ad on Page 32. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Wed. ($130, 11a); Sat. ($130, 11a). High hands.

Mon. (varies); Wed. ($105, noon); Thurs. turbo (6:30p). Aces Cracked pays $100; high hand pays $100.

Monday ($60, 6:30p); Wed. KO ($70, 6:30p); Fri. ($50, 7p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Mon. & Wed. ($60, 11a); Sun. ($100, 11a). Earn player rewards for live play.

BOOMTOWN NEW ORLEANS(800) 366-7711 • boomtownneworleans.com COUSHATTA CASINO(800) 584-7263 • coushattacasinoresort.com ELDORADO CASINO SHREVEPORT(318) 220-5274 • eldoradoshreveport.comGOLDEN NUGGET LAKE CHARLES337-508-7777 • goldennugget.com/lakecharlesHARRAH’S NEW ORLEANS(504) 533-6000 • harrahsneworleans.comHORSESHOE CASINO BOSSIER CITY(800) 895-0711 • horseshoebossiercity.comISLE OF CAPRI LAKE CHARLES(337) 430-2407 • lake-charles.isleofcapricasinos.comJENA CHOCTAW PINES CASINO(318) 648-7773 • jenachoctawpinescasino.com L’AUBERGE BATON ROUGE CASINO(225) 215-7777 • lbatonrouge.comL’AUBERGE DU LAC CASINO(337) 395-7777 • ldlcasino.comPARAGON CASINO RESORT(800) 946-1946 • paragoncasinoresort.com

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Aces Cracked; high hands. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Aces Cracked; high hand.

Wed. ($40, 7p); Sun. ($40, 2p). Bad-bead jackpot in hold’em.

HOLLYWOOD CASINO PERRYVILLE(410) 378-8500 • hollywoodcasinoperryville.comHORSESHOE BALTIMORE(443) 931-4200 • caesars.com/baltimoreMARYLAND LIVE CASINO(443) 445-2500 • marylandlivecasino.com

MISSOURIFri. ($125, 7p); Sat. ($45, 2p); Sun. ($60, noon). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em and Omaha; high hands; $1/hour player comps for

live play.Mon. ($65, 7p); Wed. ($85, 7p); Fri.-Sat. ($65, noon); Sun. ($85, noon); last Sat. of month ($160, noon); first Sun. of month ($175, noon).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is jacks full or better.

Sun. ($50, 11a); Sun. & Wed. ($50, 7p); Mon. ($60, 7p); Mon. & Wed.-Fri. ($65, 11a); Tue. ($75, 11a & 7p); Thurs. ($65, 7p); Sat. ($120, 11a); RunGood Series, Sept. 13-18.

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is quad eights or better; progressive high hands for all straight flushes and royals; PPC Series, Sept. 28-Oct. 8; iNinja event, Oct. 19-23.

AMERISTAR ST. CHARLES(636) 949-7777 • ameristar.comAMERISTAR KANSAS CITY(816) 414-7000 • ameristar.comHARRAH'S NORTH KANSAS CITY(816) 472-7777 • harrahsnkc.comHOLLYWOOD ST. LOUIS(314) 770-8100 • hollywoodcasinostlouis.com ISLE CASINO CAPE GIRARDEAU(573) 290-3017 • cape-girardeau.isleofcapricasinos.comLUMIERE PLACE(314) 881-7777 • lumiereplace.com

Mon.-Fri. varies (1p & 7p); Fri. Thousandaire Maker ($110, 7p) & ($40, 11p); Sat. ($150, noon); Sun. (varies, noon & 5p).

Bad-beat jackpot and high hands in hold’em; bad-beat jackpot in Omaha.

Appreciation (Sun.-Fri., 9:30a); Mon. ($30, noon & $40, 7p); Tue.-Wed. ($40, 7p); Thurs. ($30, noon & $40, 7p); Fri. ($75, 7p); Sat. ($40, 4p & $75, 9p); Sun. ($40, 1p & $40, 6p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high-hand jackpot.

Daily ($65-$500, times vary, call poker room for schedule). Late night high hands (daily, 2a-8a) pays $500 every hour paying up to $1.5K; WPT Maryland Live, Sept. 23-Oct. 5. Ads on Pages 7 and 35.

Mon.-Thurs. ($80, 11a); Sun.-Thurs. ($100, 7p); Sun.-Fri. ($150, 11a). Splash Pots.

Thurs. ($18, 1:30p); Fri. ($60, 7p). Progressive bad-beat jackpot; Aces Cracked; high hand.

Monthly freerolls (call for details). Bad-beat jackpot; high hand of the hour.

MISSISSIPPI

Call for information. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Daily ($60, noon); WSOPC, Sept. 8-19. Aces Cracked; Poker Squares; High Hand of the Hour.

Mon.-Thurs. ($50, noon & 7p); Fri. ($50, noon & $25 w/rbs, 7p); Sat. $10K guar. ($150, noon); Sun. ($90, noon).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; Money Madness Cash Drawings.

Mon. $1K guar. KO ($60 w/rebuy, 7p); Tue. $1K guar. ($60, 7p); Wed. & Thurs. $1K guar. ($50 w/rebuy, 7p); Sat. $2K guar. ($60, 2p); Sun. $2K guar. ($50 w/rebuy, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em, Omaha, stud and tournaments; Aces Cracked $100; $50/$100 Splash the Pot; high hands $100 w/$100 rollover.

Daily; Gulf Coast Poker Championship, Sept. 8-19. Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud.

AMERISTAR CASINO VICKSBURG (601) 630-4999 • ameristar.com/vicksburg BEAU RIVAGE RESORT AND CASINO (228) 386-7092 • beaurivage.comGOLDEN NUGGET BILOXI(228) 436-7967 • goldennugget.com/biloxiHARD ROCK BILOXI(228) 374-7625 • hardrockbiloxi.com HOLLYWOOD CASINO TUNICA(800) 871-0711 x5005 • hollywoodtunica.comHORSESHOE CASINO TUNICA(662) 357-5608 • horseshoetunica.com IP CASINO RESORT & SPA(888) 946-2847 x8554 • ipbiloxi.comPEARL RIVER RESORT(601) 663-1040 • pearlriverresort.comSCARLET PEARL RESORT & CASINO(228) 392-1889 • scarletpearlcasino.com

Mon.-Thurs. ($50, noon & 7p); Fri. ($50, noon & $25 w/rebuys, 7p); Sat. $12K guar. ($150, noon); Sun. ($90, 2p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; high hands.

Mon. ($35, 7p); Wed. freeroll (6p); Thurs. ($25, 6p); Fri. ($50, 2p); Sat. ($70, noon) & ($125, 5p). See the ad on Pages 2-3. Ask about Ante Up Poker Tour satellites.

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em and Omaha; Aces Cracked; Hot Seat (Wed. & Thurs., 3p, 5p, 7p & 9p) pays $100.

Sunday $2K guarantee ($65, 4p). Player comps and rewards.

Daily (Mon.-Sat., noon & 6p and Sun. at noon); Scarlet Pearl Poker Open $30K guar., Oct. 7-9 (call for details). See ad on Page 67.

High hands; Splash the Pot; Beat the Board; Ante Up Poker Cruise Giveaway, Oct. 7-9 (call for details).

Friday-Sunday ($60, 7p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is nines full of jacks or better; high hands (daily); Aces Cracked; $2 per hour player comps.

Thursday ($65, 1p); Sunday ($65, 4p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

NEVADA

Daily $500 guarantee ($60, 10a, 1p, 4p, 9p); Sat. & Sun. $2K freerolls (9a). Royal flushes pay $500, straight flushes pay $100.

Mon.-Thurs. various games ($75, 12:05p & $100, 7:05p); Fri. ($75, 12:05p) & ($125, 7:05p); Sat. (Omaha $75, 12:05p & 7:05p); Sun. ($75, 12:05p) & HORSE ($100, 7:05p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot.

Daily ($75) at 10a, 1p, 4p and 9p w/$1,200 guar.; daily KO ($65, 6p); WSOPC runs until Sept. 5.

Progressive High Hand Jackpot.

Mon. & Tue. ($45, 10a & 7p); last Tue. ($100, 6p); Wed. & Thurs. ($45, 10a & 7p); Fri. ($45, 10a & $100, 6p); Sat. & Sun. ($45, 10a & 7p).

Cash bonuses; call for details.

Mon.-Sun. ($50 w/$20 add-on, 7p). High hand jackpots; get paid for quads, straight flushes and royals; Aces Cracked (24/7).

Mon.-Sun. ($45, noon); Sun.-Thurs. ($45, 7p); Fri. & Sat. ($45, 6p). Progressive Aces Cracked; get paid $500 for flopped quads; tournament bad-beat jackpot.

Sun.-Thurs. ($23, 10a, $30 w/$10 rb, 1p & $35, 7p); Fri. ($23, 10a, $30 w/$10 rb, 1p & $25, 7p); Sat. ($23, 10a, $30 w/$10 rb, 1p & $55, 7p); 2nd and 4th Sat. ($105, 7p).

Amazing Aces (Mon. & Thurs., mid-6a & 4p-mid.); Best Full Houses (Tue., 10a-5p & 5p-mid.).

Mon.-Thurs. ($45-$55) at noon & 6:30p; Fri. ($45, noon); Sat. ($45, noon); Sun. ($40, 2p & $55, 6:30p); 2nd Sat. of month ($235, noon); HPT, Sept. 29-Oct. 10.

Bad-beat jackpot; high hands; get paid for quads ($75), straight flushes ($150) and royals ($400).

M & Th ($60, 12:05p) & KO ($100, 6:35p); Tue. & Wed. ($60, 12:05p) & KO ($60, 6:35p); F ($60, 12:05p); Sat. KO ($100, 12:05p); Sun. ($125, 12:05p) & ($60, 6:35p).

High hands & monthly freeroll.

No tournaments. High Hand of the Hour (Mon.-Fri.).

Mon.-Thurs. & Sun. ($65, 11a, 2p, 7p & 10p); Fri.-Sun. ($120, 11a); Fri.-Sat. KO ($100, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpot; high hands; Aces Cracked.

Mon.-Sun. ($40, 10a), ($40 w/$20 optional add-on, 3p), ($65, 10p). Progressive high hands (daily); Big Slick Royal Progressive Bonus starts at $500.

Daily $2K guar. ($70, 15K chips, 11a & 7p); Sun.-Thurs. ($50, 10K chips, 2p & 10p). $25K biweekly invitational (30 hours’ play); Cash Card starts at $1K; Four Flush Friday pays $500; Second Best Hand mornings; top 3 hands split $600.

Daily ($50, 9a), ($40, 2p), ($65, 6p) & ($40, 11p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hand; get paid for quads through royals.

Mon.-Thurs. ($140, noon); Fri. & Sun. $10K guar. ($200, noon); Sat. $25K guar. ($225, noon); seniors event, Sept. 7 ($300).

First Wed. of month seniors tournament (50-plus) $12.5K guar. ($300, noon).

Daily ($40-$75) at 11a, 2p, 7p and 10p. Get Paid to Play promo; earn up to $12/hr, including food and beverage comps.

M & W ($150, noon) & ($125, 7p); T & Th ($150, noon); T ($200, 7p); Th. ($125, 7p); Fri. ($200, noon) & ($200, 7p); Sa. ($340, noon) & ($200, 7p); Su. ($200, noon) & ($125, 7p).

DeepStack Extravaganza 3.5, Sept. 1-25; all daily events suspended during DSE. See ad on Page 15.

Wed. & Thurs. ($10, 8:30p); Fri. & Sat. $1K guar. ($50, 8:30p); Sun. ($50, 1p). Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Daily; $500 guar. ($55, 5K chips, 9a); $1K guar. ($75, 8K chips, noon); $500 guar. ($55, 5K chips, 3p); $1K guar. ($75, 8K chips, 8p).

High hands (call for details).

Mon.-Thurs. ($125, 1p); Mon.-Sun. ($125, 7p); Fri. & Sat. ($240, 11a); Sun. ($125, 11a); High Roller, Sept. 9 ($25K); Aria High Roller, Sept. 10 ($25K).

No jackpots.

Daily ($40 w/$20 rbs, 11a). EZ Way Bad Beat; Prize Wheel Spin Bonus; earn $2/hour in poker comps - call for details.

Daily ($125, 5p). No jackpots.

Sun.-Fri. ($75, 1p); nightly ($55, 7p); Sat. $10K guar. ($160, 1p). Earn $400 per week playing live poker (call for details).

No tournaments. $500 Omaha high hand (Sun.-Mon.); Omaha Double Jackpot (Wed.).

Daily ($100, 10a), ($125, 2p), ($125, 6p), ($150, 9p). High hand; get paid for quads ($100), straight flush ($200) and royals ($500).

Daily except Tue. & Wed. ($30, 10a); Tue. & Wed. ($30, 6p); freeroll on the first Fri. of every month ($2.5K added) w/Beat the Boss Bounty (6p).

Bad-beat jackpots in hold’em and stud; quads or better is paid (daily).

Daily ($40, 9a) & ($45, 1p, 5p & 8p); tournaments have a 5K starting stack with 15-minute levels.

Spin the Wheel for Aces Cracked; quad deuces pay $222 with pocket pair; Regal Royals pay $555.

Six tournaments daily w/guarantees ($60, 10a, 1p, 6p, 9p, mid.) & ($50, 4p); $6K freeroll (Fri.).

Get paid for quads ($50), straight flush ($100), and royals ($300); High Hand of the Hour pays $50 (8a-1p).

Daily $800 guar. ($40, 10a). Poker Windfall for quads ($200-$500); Omaha Steel Wheel pays up to $1K.

Sun.-Fri. ($25 w/$20 rebuys, 11a & 6:30p); Sat. KO ($65, 11a) & KO ($100, 6:30p). Aces Cracked pays $100 (Tue.-Thurs.); Progressive High Hand Bonus.

Daily ($65, 11a), ($45, 3p), ($65, 7p); ($45, 10p); Sun. $5K guar. ($125, 11a). Player rewards, earn $2 per hour in cash games.

Daily $500 guar. ($60, 9a, noon, 3p & 7p); $1K guar. ($100, 10p); Fri. & Sat. KO ($100).

Royals pay $500, straight flushes pay $100.

Daily ($40, 10a); Mon. & Wed. ($50, 6p); Tue. & Thurs. ($75, 6p); Fri. ($95, 6p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Poker room open Friday-Monday (10a) and Thursday (4p). Hourly High Full House Giveaway; quads pays $25, straight flush pays $100 and royals pay $250.

ARIA(866) 359-7111 • arialasvegas.com ATLANTIS CASINO RESORT SPA RENO(800) 723-6500 • atlantiscasino.comBALLY’S LAS VEGAS(702) 967-4111 • ballyslasvegas.comBELLAGIO(702) 693-7111 • bellagio.comBINION’S GAMBLING HALL(702) 382-1600 • binions.com BOOMTOWN RENO(775) 345-6000 • boomtownreno.com BOULDER STATION HOTEL & CASINO(702) 432-7777 • boulderstation.comCACTUS PETES RESORT CASINO(775) 755-6471 • cactuspetes.comCAESARS PALACE(702) 731-7110 • caesarspalace.com ELDORADO HOTEL CASINO(775) 786-5700 • eldoradoreno.com EXCALIBUR HOTEL AND CASINO(702) 597-7777 • excalibur.com FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS(702) 733-3111 • flamingolasvegas.com GOLDEN NUGGET LAS VEGAS(702) 385-7111 • goldennugget.com GRAND SIERRA RESORT(775) 789-2000 • grandsierraresort.com GREEN VALLEY RANCH(702) 617-7777 • greenvalleyranchresort.com HARD ROCK LAS VEGAS(702) 693-5000 • hardrockhotel.com HARRAH’S LAS VEGAS(702) 369-5000 • harrahslasvegas.com HARVEYS LAKE TAHOE(775) 588-6611 • harveystahoe.comLUXOR HOTEL & CASINO(702) 262-4000 • luxor.com MANDALAY BAY702-632-7777 • mandalaybay.com MGM GRAND LAS VEGAS(702) 891-1111 • mgmgrand.comMIRAGE(702) 791-7111 • mirage.com MONTE CARLO RESORT & CASINO(702) 730-7777 • montecarlo.com THE ORLEANS(702) 365-7111 • orleanscasino.com PALACE STATION(702) 367-2453 • palacestation.comPEPPERMILL RESORT CASINO(775) 826-2121 • peppermillreno.comPLANET HOLLYWOOD(702) 785-5555 • planethollywoodresort.com RED ROCK CASINO(702) 797-7777 • redrock.sclv.com RIO HOTEL & CASINO(702) 777-7777 • riolasvegas.com SAM’S TOWN LAS VEGAS(702) 456-7777 • samstownlv.com SANTA FE STATION CASINO(702) 658-4900 • santafestationlasvegas.com SOUTH POINT HOTEL CASINO(702) 796-7111 • southpointcasino.com STRATOSPHERE CASINO, HOTEL & TOWER(702) 944-4915 • stratospherehotel.comSUNCOAST HOTEL & CASINO(702) 636-7111 • suncoastcasino.com TREASURE ISLAND(702) 894-7111 • treasureisland.comVENETIAN RESORT(702) 414-1000 • venetian.comWENDOVER NUGGET(775) 664-2221 • wendovernugget.comWYNN LAS VEGAS(702) 770-7000 • wynnlasvegas.com

Daily ($45, 10:30a, 12:30p, 8:30p & 10:30p). Graveyard Giveaway (daily at 6a, 7a & 8a); get paid for quads, straight flush and royal flush.

Mon., Tue., Thurs.-Sat. KO ($60, 10a, 2p & 7p); Wed. & Sun. ($60, 10a & 2p); Wed. & Sun. ($100, 6p). See the ad on the back cover.

Earn $1 an hour in comps (daily); high hand (daily).

Daily $600 guar. ($70, noon & 8p, 10K chips, 20-minute levels). Progressive royal flush; Aces Cracked (Mon.-Fri.); high hand (daily); Spin the Wheel (Mon.-Thurs. & Sat.-Sun.); $2K tournament bad beat.


WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

63

@anteupm


| SEPTEMBER 2016 |

Indicates this property is hosting an Ante Up event. To host an event, contact Scott Long at (727) 331-4335.

Wed. ($30, 7p); Thurs, ($30, 7p); Fri. ($75, 7p). Spin the Wheel (daily); Aces Cracked; high hand.


WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

64

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

Mon. ($65, 7p); Tue. ($65, 7p); Wed. ($65,7p); Fri. ($135, 6p); Sun. ($250, 2p). Player rewards for tournament players. NORTH CAROLINA

HARRAH’S CHEROKEE (N.C.)(828) 497-7777 • harrahscherokee.com

NEW YORKSENECA NIAGARA (877) 873-6322 • senecaniagaracasino.com SENECA SALAMANCA (877) 860-5130 • senecagames.com TURNING STONE RESORT (800) 386-5366 • turningstone.com

M ($100, 10a & 7p); T ($60, 10a & 7p); W ($100, 10a & 7p); Th ($60, 10a & 7p); F $2.5K guar. ($100, 10a); Sa ($60, 10a) & ($225, 11a); Su ($60, 10a) & ($100, 7p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (quad 2s), Omaha (quad 9s) & stud (quad 2s); high hands. Last Sat. of month tourney ($300, 11a); 1st Wed. ($160, 7p).

Room open Wed., Thurs. & Sun. (10a-3a); Fri. & Sat. (10a-5a). Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud; get paid for royal and straight flushes.

M-Th. ($15-$105) at noon, 7p & 8p & 8:30p; Fri. ($100, noon & $105, 7p); Sat. ($95, 11a & $155, 4p); Sun. ($90, 11a & $90, 4p); 1st Sun. ($230, 11a); 3rd Sun. ($330, 11a)

Cash giveaways; high hands (Mon.-Wed.). See ad on Page 38.

OHIO

Mon.-Fri. ($60, 10:15a); Mon. ($60, 7:15p); Tues. ($60, 7:15p); Wed. KO ($75, 7:15p); Sat. ($130, 12:15p); Sun. ($120, 12:15p) & KO ($75, 7:15p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is quad eights.

Mon. $5K guar. ($60, 7:15p); Thurs. $4K guar. ($60, 7:15p); Fri. $4K guar. ($90, 12:15p); Sat. $6K guar. survivor ($120, 12:15p); Sun. $10K guar. ($140, 12:15p).


Daily at 12:15p and 7:15p (buy-ins vary), plus last Sun. $50K guar. ($500, 12:15p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; Omaha bad-beat jackpot; high hand (daily).

M-F ($80, 12:15p); Mon. ($160, 6:15p); Wed. ($160, 6:15p); Sun. ($160, 12:15p); 1st Sat. ($400, 12:15p); 3rd Sat. turbo ($300, 12:15p); last Sat. $5K freeroll (12:15p).

Bad-beat jackpot starts at $25K.

HOLLYWOOD COLUMBUS(614) 308-3333 • hollywoodcolumbus.com HOLLYWOOD TOLEDO(419) 661-5200 • hollywoodcasinotoledo.comJACK CLEVELAND CASINO(216) 297-4777 • horseshoecleveland.comJACK CINCINNATI CASINO(877) 975-3436 • horseshoecincinnati.com

NEW MEXICOBUFFALO THUNDER CASINO(505) 455-5555 • buffalothunderresort.comINN OF THE MOUNTAIN GODS(575) 464-7777 • innofthemountaingods.com ISLETA RESORT & CASINO(505) 724-3800 • hardrockcasinoabq.comROUTE 66 CASINO(505) 352-7866 • rt66casino.comSANDIA RESORT & CASINO(505) 796-7500 • sandiacasino.com

Mon. ($40, 7p); Tue. ($40, 7p); Wed. ($60, 7p); Fri. ($30, noon); Sat. & Sun. ($30, noon & $45, 7p).


Mon. ($30 w/rb, 6:30p); Tue. ($40 w/rb, 6:30p); Wed. ($50 w/rbs, 6:30p); Th. O/8 ($30 w/rbs, 6:30p); Fri. & Sat. ($75, 6:30p); Su. ($30 w/rbs, 5p); last Sa. ($150, 1p).

Easy Aces Mini Bad Beat (daily); Late Night High Hands (Sun.-Thurs., 11p-2a) up to $225 nightly; Labor Day event, Sept. 5 ($30 w/rebuys); Sept. 17 ($107).

Fri. ($120, 6p); Sat. Second Chance (freeroll, must play Fri. event); Sun. ($75, 2p); $100K Championship, Sept. 24-25 ($1,100); See ad on Page 22.


Sun.-Thurs. ($28, noon & 3p); Sun. & Wed. ($28, 7p); Mon., Tue. & Thurs. ($14, 7p); Fri. ($28, noon & 5p) & ($33, 8p); Sat. ($33, noon) & ($28, 5p & 8p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; player ultimate rewards.

Mon. ($55, 7p); Tue. & Thurs. KO ($75 w/$25 bounties, 7p); Sun. ($50, noon) & ($45, 5p); AUPT Four Corners Championship, Sept. 3-5.


OKLAHOMA

Mon.,Wed. & Thurs. ($60, 1p & $100, 7p); Tue. ($60, 1p & 7p); Fri. ($115, 7p); Sat. ($180, noon); Sun. ($115, 3p).

$25K bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (daily); mini bad-beat jackpot (daily); $5K Omaha bad-beat jackpot (daily).

Mon.-Fri. ($30, 2p); Tue. & Thurs. ($40, 7:30p); Wed. ($40, 7:30p); Sat. ($60, noon). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Tue. ($40, 7p); Wed. ($75, 7p); Fri. ($60, 7p); Sat. ($60, 2p) & ($120, 5p); Sun. crazy pineapple ($45, 2p).


Mon. ($30, 11a & $35 w/rebuys, 7p); Tue. ($30, 7p); Wed. ($50, 7p); Thurs. KO ($60, 7p); Fri. ($30, 11a & $50, 6p); Sat. KO ($90, 2p); Sun. ($115, 2p).

Aces Cracked; Splash Pots.

Sun.-Fri. ($35, 10a); Mon. ($25, 4p) & ($50, 7p); Tue. ($50, 7p); Wed. ($60, 7p); Thurs. ($100, 7p); Fri. ($70, 7p); Sat. ($125, noon) & ($60, 5p); Sun. ($80, 7p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot.

Mon.-Fri. ($40, 11a); Sat. ($90, 11a); Sun. ($115, 11a); Mon.-Wed. ($40, 7p); Thurs. & Sat. ($90, 7p); Sun. ($40, 7p).


Daily ($50, 9:30a); Mon. & Wed. ($30 w/$20 rebuy, 7p); Tue. HA ($50, 7p); Wed. 50+ event (4p); Thurs. & Sun. $1.2K guar. ($75, 7p); Fri. ($65, 7p); Sat. ($50, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpot; tournament bad-beat jackpot.

Saturday ($40, noon)- extra chips available with cash donation; room open Sun.-Thurs. (noon-2a) & Fri.-Sat. (noon-4a).


Tue. ($25 w/rbs, 7p); Wed. seniors ($35, 2p) & Wild Wed ($25, 7p); Thurs. w/$10 bounty ($50, 7p); Fri. ($40, 7p); 2nd & 4th Sat. ($65, 7p); Sun. crazy pine. ($35, 3p).

High hands bonuses (Sat.).

Mon.-Sun. ($25 w/rebuys, 10a); Tue. ($25 w/rebuys, 7p); Wed. ($50, 7p); Thurs. ($25 w/rebuys, 7p); Fri. KO ($60, 7p); Sat. KO ($100, 7p); Sun. Ante Up ($60, 2p).

Earn participation points based off of the buy-in of the tournament.CHEROKEE WEST SILOAM SPRINGS(800) 754-4111 • cherokeestarrewards.com CHOCTAW RESORT CASINO(580) 920-0160 • choctawcasinos.comCOMANCHE NATION(580) 250-3030 • comanchenationcasino.com DOWNSTREAM CASINO RESORT(918) 919-6000 • downstreamcasino.comGRAND CASINO HOTEL & RESORT(405) 964-7263 • firelakegrand.comHARD ROCK TULSA(918) 384-6648 • hardrockcasinotulsa.com INDIGO SKY CASINO888-992-7591 • indigoskycasino.comOSAGE CASINO TULSA(877) 246-8777 • osagecasinos.comRIVER SPIRIT CASINO(918) 299-8518 • creeknationcasino.com RIVERWIND CASINO(405) 322-6000 • riverwindcasino.comWINSTAR WORLD CASINO(580) 276-4229 • winstarcasinos.com

Mon.-Thurs. ($65, 1p & 7p); Fri. ($120, 11a); Sat. ($175, 11a); Sun. KO ($230, 1p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

NEW JERSEY

M ($100, 11a & 7p); T ($100, 11a & 7p); W ($120, 11a & 6p); Th. ($100, 11a & $220, 7p); Fri. ($230, noon & $120, 6p); Sat. ($120, 11a & $220, 6p); Sun. ($115, 10a).

Bad-beat jackpot is quad tens in hold’em; WPT Borgata Poker Open, Sept. 6-23.

BALLY’S ATLANTIC CITY(609) 340-2000 • ballysac.comBORGATA HOTEL CASINO AND SPA(609) 317-1000 • theborgata.comGOLDEN NUGGET ATLANTIC CITY(800) 777-8477 • goldennugget.com/atlanticcity HARRAH’S ATLANTIC CITY(609) 441-5000 • harrahsresort.comTROPICANA ATLANTIC CITY(609) 340-4000 • tropicana.net

Wed. & Sun. $2.5K guar. ($65, 8:15p): Sat. $2.5K guar. ($65, 1:15p). High hands.

Mon.-Sun. ($50, 11:15a & 7:15p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Daily (buy-ins, times vary), including Mon. $2.5K Industry Night (7:15p) and last Saturday of the month, $10K guar. ($180, 12:15p).

High hand (daily, 2p-2a); Splash the Pot (daily, 11a-11p).

Mon., Wed. & Sun. ($55, 7p); Tue. & Thurs. ($55, 7p); Fri.-Sun. ($40, 3p); Fri. & Sat. $5K guar. ($65, 7p).

High hand (daily) pays up to $350.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

M ($70, 5:30p); T ($100, 1:30p & $50, 5:30p); W ($70, 5:30p); Th. ($80, 5:30p); F ($90, 1p, & $80, 5:30p); Sa ($90, 1p, $70, 5p & $60, 8p); Su ($50, 1p & $100, 3:30p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em, Omaha and stud.


Mon. ($10, 6p); Wed. ($5, 6p); Thurs. $2K guar. ($50, 6p); Fri. ($10, 4p & $70, 6p); Sat. ($20, 12:30p); Sun. ($10, 1p).

Spin the Wheel; Match Play.

Mon. ($60, 8p); Fri. ($40, 5:30p & $60, 8p); Sat. ($40, 12:05p). Player rewards (call for details).

HAMPTON FALLS (603) 601-2486 • hamptonfallspoker.com MANCHESTER POKER ROOM (603) 668-6591RIVER CASINO (603) 249-5548 • therivercasino.com


Daily at noon and 7p, including Sat. ($325, noon & $150, 7p) and Sun. ($150, noon & $100, 7p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hands; cash giveaways.WEST VIRGINIA

Mon. ($40, 7:30p); Wed. ($55, 10:30a) & seniors ($75, 5p); Sun. ($50, 2p). Happy Hour Promo (call for details).

HOLLYWOOD AT CHARLES TOWN(800) 795-7001 • ctowntables.comMOUNTAINEER RIVER POKER ROOM(304) 387-8458 • mountaineerpoker.com

Daily ($35, 11a); Wed. ($55 w/$20 add-on, 6p). Daily Double Jackpot; royal flush jackpot.

Mon. ($25 w/$20 rebuys, 7p); Tue. ($40, 7p); Wed. ($45, 7p); Thurs. ($55, 7p); Fri. ($110, 7p); Sat. KO ($35, 5p); Sun. Omaha/8 ($35, 5p).

High hands (Sat.-Sun., noon-3p), (Mon.-Wed., 9p-mid.) & (Mon.-Fri., noon-4p).

Mon. ($120, 7p); Tue. ($150, 7p); Wed. & Thurs. ($65, 7p); Fri. ($35, noon); Sat. ($40 w/rebuys, noon); 2nd Sun. of month ($215, noon).

$500 high hands (Sun.); High Hand Insanity (Wed.).

Monday-Saturday $300 added ($35, 10:30a). Hot Seats; high hands; early bird prizes; Monte Carlo Board.

WASHINGTON

M-F ($20, 10:30a); M ($40, 7p); T ($80, 7p); Th. ($150, 7p); F ($80, 7p); Sa. $3K guar. ($40, 11a); Su. $10K guar. ($110, 11a); last Su. $10K added ($275, 11a).

$10K progressive bad-beat jackpot; high hands; Monster Monte Carlo; $100 Omaha high hand.

CLEARWATER CASINO(360) 598-8700 • clearwatercasino.comLITTLE CREEK CASINO(360) 427-7711 • little-creek.comMUCKLESHOOT CASINO(253) 804-4444 • muckleshootcasino.comNORTHERN QUEST CASINO(509) 242-7000 • northernquest.comSNOQUALMIE CASINO(425) 888-1234 • snocasino.comTULALIP RESORT CASINO(360) 716-6000 • tulalipresort.com.com

Daily $600 guar. (10:30a); Sun.-Thurs. (7p). Beginner lessons available.

SOUTH DAKOTACADILLAC JACK’S(605) 578-1500 • cadillacjacksresort.comLODGE AT DEADWOOD(605) 571-2135 • deadwoodlodge.comSALOON #10(605) 578-3346 • saloon10.comSILVERADO FRANKLIN(605) 578-3670 • silveradocasino.com

Mon. ($20, 7p); Tue. ($20, 7p); Wed. ($20, 7p); Thurs. ($20, 7p); Sun. ($20, 7p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; bad-beat tournament jackpot.

Mon. ($12, 6:30p); Tue. ($23, 6:30p); Wed. ($45, 6:30p); Thurs. ($34, 6:30p); Fri. ($34, 6:30p); Sat. ($23, 1p); Sun. ($111, 2p); last Sun. of month ($221, 2p).

Triple Poker Points (Wed., Fri. & Sat.).

Wed. ($60, 7p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Sat. ($125, 6:30p); Sun. ($30, 3p). Pyramid player rewards; Spin the Wheel.

OREGON

Super Tuesday has $500 added to the prize pool ($25, 7p); Thursday Throwdown ($45, 7p); Sunday Showdown ($120, 1p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.TEXAS

KICKAPOO LUCKY EAGLE CASINO HOTEL(830) 752-4545 • kickapooluckyeaglecasino.com

WH

ER

E T

O P

LA

YC

AR

DR

OO

MS

65

@anteupm


| SEPTEMBER 2016 |

WISCONSIN

Tue. ($55, 1p); Thurs. ($55, 6:30p); Sat. ($38 w/re-entries, 3p); Sun. ($85, 1p); 1st Sun. of month ($170, 1p); MSPT, Sept. 3-11.


1st Saturday KO ($200, 2p). Xtreme bad-beat jackpot.

BAD RIVER LODGE CASINO(715) 682-7121 • badriver.com HO-CHUNK GAMING AT NEKOOSA(800) 782-4560 • ho-chunkgaming.com HO-CHUNK GAMING AT WISCONSIN DELLS(608) 356-6210 • ho-chunkgaming.comPOTAWATOMI BINGO CASINO(414) 645-6888 • paysbig.com

Open Wednesday (5p-2a) & Saturday (6p-2a). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em.

Wednesday ($71, 6p); Saturday ($220, noon); Sunday ($120, 3p). Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em (quad 10s).

PENNSYLVANIAM ($50, 11:30a & $70, 7p); T ($60, 11:30a & $70, 7p); W ($60, 11:30a & PLO $60, 7p); Th. KO ($60, 11:30a & $90, 7p); F & Sa. ($50, 11:30a & $60, 7p); Su. ($60, 11:30a & 7p).


Mon., Wed., Fri. ($60, 12:15p); Tue. ($100, 7:15p); Thurs. ($60, 7:15p); Sat. ($100/$200, 12:15p); Sun. ($120, 12:15p); last Sat. ($330, 12:15p).

Progressive bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hands pay up to $100.

Daily at 11:15a and 7:15p but no Sunday evening event (buy-ins range from $46-$96). Ask about the $5K freeroll.

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; progressive high-hand jackpot.

Weekday tourneys noon and 7p ($30-$125); Sat. ($30, 11a & $75, 7p); Sun. ($60, 11a & $50, 7p).

High-hand jackpot (daily, 10a-4p, 4p-10p & 10p-10a).

Mon. ($120, 7:15p); Tue. ($120, 7:15p); Wed. ($80, 12:15p); Thurs. ($120, 7:15p); Sat. ($230, 12:15p); Sun. ($100, 12:15p).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em is quad sixes.

Daily ($50-$225); Mon.-Fri. (12:15p & 7:15p); Sat. (9a, 12:15p & 7p); Sun. (mid., 2p & 7:15p).


Thurs. ($75/$100, 7:30p); 1st Sat. KO ($75, 12:30p); 2nd Sat. turbo ($100, 12:30p); 3rd Sat. ($230, 2:30p); Sun. ($50/$65, 12:30p).

Super high hand (Fri.-Sun., 4p-mid.).

HARRAH’S PHILADELPHIA (800) 480-8020 • harrahschester.comHOLLYWOOD PENN NATIONAL(717) 469-2211 • hcpn.comMEADOWS CASINO(724) 503-1200 • meadowsgaming.comMOHEGAN SUN/POCONO DOWNS(570) 831-2100 • mohegansunpocono.comPARX CASINO(215) 639-9000 • parxcasino.com PRESQUE ISLE DOWNS & CASINO(814) 866-8379 • eriecasino.com RIVERS CASINO (412) 231-7777 • theriverscasino.comSANDS CASINO BETHLEHEM(877) SANDS-77 • sandsbethworks.comSUGARHOUSE CASINO(877) 477-3715 • sugarhousecasino.com

Daily ($50-$300); Mon. (11a); Tue. (7p); Wed. (11a); Fri. (11a); Sat. (11a); Sun. (11a).

Bad-beat jackpot in hold’em; high hands.

Mon. ($100, 7:15p); Wed. ($70, 12:30a & $100, 7:15p); Thurs. ($80, 12:30p & $100, 7:15p); Sat. ($40, 12:30p & $100, 7:15p); Sun. ($55, 12:30p & $85, 7:15p).

High hand jackpot (daily); SugarRush Challenge, Sept. 21-25. See ad on Page 39.


Open Mon.-Thurs. (noon-4a) & Fri.-Mon. (noon-4a). Player rewards.RHODE ISLAND

TWIN RIVER CASINO(401) 723-3200 • twinriver.com

Mon. ($40, 5:30p); Fri. ($100, 5p); Sat. ($95, 2p); Sun. ($60, 6p); closed on Wed.-Thurs.

Splash Pot (Mon., noon-5p); royal flush bonus.CHINOOK WINDS CASINO(541) 996-5825 • chinookwindscasino.comSPIRIT MOUNTAIN CASINO(503) 879-2350 • spiritmountain.comWILDHORSE RESORT(541) 278-2274 • wildhorseresort.com

Mon. $350 freeroll (10:30a); Tue. stud/8 ($30, 10:30a); Wed. Omaha/8 ($30, 10:30a); Thurs. ($40, 10:30a & 7p); Fri. $500 added ($70, noon); Sat. KO ($90, noon).

High hand (Sun.); Monte Carlo (Sun.-Fri.); Wheel Spin (Sat.).

Tue. ($35, 6:30p); Thurs. ($55, 6:30p); Sat. $300 added ($110, 1p); Sun. $100 added ($35, 1p).

Rolling High Hand (Wed.).


The Ante Up PokerCast is the longest, continually running podcast on the planet. Tune in every Friday for news, strategy, advice and humor from Ante Up publishers Chris Cosenza and Scott Long. Subscribe for free on

iTunes or listen directly at anteupmagazine.com.

ANTE UP POKERCASTO

N T

HE

BU

TT

ON

66

| S

EPTE

MBE

R 20

16 |

ant

eupm

agaz

ine.

com

| @

ante

upm

agaz

ine

Do We Need an Ethics Committee?Jennifer Newell, writing on PokerUpdate.Com, said poker needs an ethics committee. One group for poker that will establish and enforce a code of ethics in an open and transparent manner. James Guill, writing on the same web-site, disagreed, saying it would be a hard group to form and operate.CHRIS: I don’t see how it’s possible to do this. You can put together any kind of committee you want, but I think it would be like herding cats. You can establish a code, but you have to get so many entities on board with it. I just don’t see how they could enforce it. It’s a very difficult thing to pull off. I think it’s great if they could do it and we all could be ethical, but what’s next, oversight commit-tees?SCOTT: One, how possible is this? On the scale of one to me ever admitting that Independence Day: Resurgence is worth $15, it is clearly on that end of the impossibility scale. There’s no governing body for poker and I’m not even sure people want that. But if it is possible, then what do we define as ethics in poker? Is it domestic abuse? Is it cheating on an online site? Is it check-raising? There’s such a wide range of things that someone would have to de-velop a list and say this is what we consider to be ethical behavior, and I really don’t know how you’d agree on that.

Don’t Do This in Your Home GameNeed some standards for your home game? Learn from Ben-gals rookie Corey Tindal, who was robbed at gunpoint while playing poker in a Super 8 motel room in Huntington, W. Va. with two men he knew only by nicknames, and learn from Anthony Silva, mayor of Stockton, Calif., who’s facing charges after allegedly secretly recording himself playing strip poker at a camp with camp counselors. SCOTT ON TINDAL: If you’re invited to a poker game in a Super 8 motel room with people you don’t know, that’s probably not a home game you want to play in. If you show up and the only two guys in the room are guys you know only as Flaky and Johnson, that’s probably not a home game you want to play in. And I’m not suggesting you install a metal detector at your home game, but I will suggest this: If you’re playing in a Super 8 motel room with two guys called Flaky and Johnson, you might want to be sure they aren’t packing heat. CHRIS ON SILVA: You’re the mayor! The mayor! How can you be the mayor of anything? How can you sit down and say, “I’m going to do this” when you’re the mayor? You’re supposed to be looked up to and this is what you’re doing? No matter what it is, there is no upside to this. With social media these days, you’ve got to be kidding me!

How Many Hot Dogs Can You Eat, Scott? Scott entered a hot-dog-eating contest on July 4 and encouraged friends and Ante Up fans to pledge a dollar a dog to charity. The effort raised $1,900 to support the Mattie Williams Neigh-borhood Family Center in his hometown of Safety Harbor, Fla.SCOTT: I was a little cocky going into this thing. I can put some hot dogs away. It was a lot of fun and my wife, Laura, did a Facebook Live, so people were chatting online dur-ing it, which was really cool. I lot of people came out, so it was a good day, but unfortu-nately, I only managed to get five hot dogs down. CHRIS: I’m not laughing at you; it’s just that I guessed in my mind that you’d eat five hot dogs and that’s exactly what you ate. And, of course, Joey Chestnut ate 70.

Documents

ANTE UP WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP PLUS - Your Poker … POKER MAGAZINE TM ... the event catapulted Still to the top spot ... folds and bluffs. I think that you kind of need to have all those